Great apes imitate actions of others and effects of others' actions
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- open peer-commentary
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Vol. 21 (5) , 700
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x98401742
Abstract
Apes imitate the effects of others' actions, but the evidence for program-level imitation seems contradictory and the evidence against bodily imitation and trial and error in learning the organization of complex activities seems ambiguous. Action-level imitations are more flexible than described and may derive from imitation of the effects of others' actions on objects.Keywords
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