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. 2017 Jan:40:e393.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001904.

Mommy or me? Who is the agent in a sense of agency in infant orofacial stereotypies?

Gerry Leisman  1
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Mommy or me? Who is the agent in a sense of agency in infant orofacial stereotypies?

Gerry Leisman. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

That neonates imitate is an assertion that lacks supporting evidence. Orofacial stereotypies are critical to optimizing food rejection. Matching of tongue-protrusion is not imitation, but a manifestation of the infant's arousal by the modeler's exhibition of the same behavior. The support for the nativist assertion that newborn infants imitate is not compelling, and we should proceed on the assumption that they do not.

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