A developmental psychologist who, with M. Keith Moore, reported experiments on neonatal imitation. Infants’ gestures were compared across modeled facial and manual actions to test specific matching. The influential proposal made early imitation experimentally tractable; later disagreement, including Janine Oostenbroek’s longitudinal work, highlights the importance of comparison actions and scoring rules.[ref]
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