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What drives young children to over-imitate? Investigating the effects of age, context, action type, and transitivity (2017)
Journal Article
Imitation underlies many traits thought to characterize our species, which includes the transmission and acquisition of language, material culture, norms, rituals, and conventions. From early childhood, humans show an intriguing willingness to imitat... Read More about What drives young children to over-imitate? Investigating the effects of age, context, action type, and transitivity.
Is Overimitation a Uniquely Human Phenomenon? Insights From Human Children as Compared to Bonobos (2017)
Journal Article
Imitation is a key mechanism of human culture and underlies many of the intricacies of human social life, including rituals and social norms. Compared to other animals, humans appear to be special in their readiness to copy novel actions as well as t... Read More about Is Overimitation a Uniquely Human Phenomenon? Insights From Human Children as Compared to Bonobos.
Bonobos use call combinations to facilitate inter-party travel recruitment (2017)
Journal Article
Many primates produce vocalizations when initiating travel. These “travel calls” are often acoustically similar to vocalizations unrelated to travel, and listeners appear to rely on a shared context with callers to correctly interpret the calls. When... Read More about Bonobos use call combinations to facilitate inter-party travel recruitment.