Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Importance of Imitative Ability in Language Development
There are some really heroic demonstrations of a infants imitating in the neonatal words thes, forty two minute old. The idea is that imitation provides the scaffolding for doing all sorts of things. For example, once you have imitation, ah, you can a build theory of mine. That's an innate correspondence. I understand the relation between my movements and your movements.
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