A study that questioned earlier findings
Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans
Janine Oostenbroek, Thomas Suddendorf, Mark Nielsen, Jonathan Redshaw, Siobhan Kennedy‐Costantini, Jacqueline Davis, Sally Clark, Virginia P. Slaughter · 2016 · Current Biology
- Children
- About 100 babies
- Where
- Not given in the summary we read
- Ages
- 1 to 9 weeks
- How
- Researchers tested the same babies several times in their first weeks
- What it found
- Babies were no more likely to make a face or movement after seeing it than after seeing a different one, so the study found no copying.
- Limits
- We have only read the summary.