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Imitation

Imitation (from Latin imitatio, "a copying, imitation") is a behavior whereby an individual observes and replicates another's behavior. Imitation is also a form of learning that leads to the "development of traditions, and ultimately our culture. It allows for the transfer of information (behaviors, customs, etc.) between individuals and down generations…

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Anthropology and social sciences

Neuroscience

Mirror neuron system

Animal behavior

Child development

Automatic imitation

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Imitation

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Triples166
Avg. degree1.98
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related to Further reading · 20
Imitation → Animal Cognition, Apraxie, Apraxiegebiet, Asymbolie, Berlin, Das Krankheitsbild, Definitions, Drei Aufsätze, Ergebn Ges Med, Gehirnkranken, Handelns, Karger Publ, Karger Verlag, Liepmann, NAID, PMID, S2CID, Störungen, Thomas, Zentall
related to Infants · 19
Imitation → After, An, Andrew, Bekkering, Carpenter, Child Development, For, Gergely, In, Infants, It, Just, Király, Mailman Centre, Meltzoff, Miami Medical School, These, Tomasello, University
related to Animal behavior · 15
Imitation → Hayes, However, Huber, I-do, It, Replications, Scientists, The, Their, They, This, Thorndike, Thorpe, Viki, Voelkl
related to Neuroscience · 14
Imitation → Das, Handlungsplanung, He, His, However, Hugo Karl Liepmann, Human, Humans, It, Liepmann, Liepmann's, Modell, On, Though
related to Child development · 11
Imitation → Developmental, However, If, Imitative, It, Jean Piaget, Reinforcement, RIT, The, This, To
related to Over-imitation · 11
Imitation → According, Carpenter, Children's, Evans, Experiments, However, It, Lyons, Over-imitation, Studies, They
related to Automatic imitation · 10
Imitation → By, Children, For, In, Psychologically, Simon Says, The, Their, They, Toddlers
related to Gender and age differences · 10
Imitation → Although, Bandura, Bandura's, Boys, Children, In, No, One, Research, The
related to Deferred imitation · 8
Imitation → Between, By, Deferred, Gestural, Instead, It, Piaget, Researchers
related to Negative imitation · 7
Imitation → Actions, If, Imitating, It, Much, So, This

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Imitationis ainborn ability has been recently challenged0.90text
Imitationis atoddlers way of confirming and dis-conforming socially acceptable actions in society0.90text
languageinstance ofRamachandran argues that the evolution of mirror neurons were important in the human acquisition of complex skills0.80text
believes the discovery of mirror neurons to be a most important advance in neuroscienceinstance ofRamachandran argues that the evolution of mirror neurons were important in the human acquisition of complex skills0.80text
empathy or learning by imitation.Evidence is accumulating that bottlenose dolphins employ imitation to learn huntinginstance oflittle evidence directly supports the theory that mirror neuron activity is involved in cognitive functions0.80text
other skills from other dolphins.Japanese monkeys have been seen to spontaneously begin washing potatoes after seeing humans washing theminstance oflittle evidence directly supports the theory that mirror neuron activity is involved in cognitive functions0.80text
priminginstance ofit would also include mechanisms0.80text
contagious behaviorinstance ofit would also include mechanisms0.80text
social facilitationinstance ofit would also include mechanisms0.80text
which most scientist distinguish as separate forms of observational learninginstance ofit would also include mechanisms0.80text
Imitationrelated to Animal behaviorScientists0.60section
Imitationrelated to Animal behaviorThe0.60section

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