Paradoxical decrease of imitation performance with age in children.
Imitation development was studied in a cross‐sectional design involving 174 primary‐school children (aged 6–10), focusing on the effect of actions' complexity and error analysis to infer the underlying cognitive processes. Participants had to imitate the model's actions as if they were in front of a...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 114; no. 3; pp. 678 - 710 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=164879263&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 164879263 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00071269 BJP jtl: British Journal of Psychology issn: 00071269 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Aug2023 vid: 114 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 164879263 10.1111/bjop.12644 ppf: 678 ppct: 32 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Paradoxical decrease of imitation performance with age in children. aug: au: Ottoboni, Giovanni Toraldo, Alessio Proietti, Riccardo Cangelosi, Angelo Tessari, Alessia affil: Department of Psychology 'Renzo Canestrari', University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Milan Centre for Neuroscience (NeuroMI), Milan, Italy Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Bologna, Italy su: Italy Memory Age distribution Child development Cross-sectional method Imitative behavior Elementary schools Children Statistics Cognition in children Human anatomical models Regression analysis Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Statistical sampling Statistical models Data analysis Video recording sug: subj: Memory Age distribution Child development Cross-sectional method Imitative behavior Elementary schools Children Italy Elementary and Secondary Schools Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling Statistics Cognition in children Human anatomical models Regression analysis Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Statistical sampling Statistical models Data analysis Video recording keyword: body knowledge children development double dissociation imitation meaningless action movement complexity working memory body knowledge children development double dissociation imitation meaningless action movement complexity working memory ab: Imitation development was studied in a cross‐sectional design involving 174 primary‐school children (aged 6–10), focusing on the effect of actions' complexity and error analysis to infer the underlying cognitive processes. Participants had to imitate the model's actions as if they were in front of a mirror ('specularly'). Complexity varied across three levels: movements of a single limb; arm and leg of the same body side; or arm and leg of opposite body sides. While the overall error rate decreased with age, this was not true of all error categories. The rate of 'side' errors (using a limb of the wrong body side) paradoxically increased with age (from 9 years). However, with increasing age, the error rate also became less sensitive to the complexity of the action. This pattern is consistent with the hypothesis that older children have the working memory (WM) resources and the body knowledge necessary to imitate 'anatomically', which leads to additional side errors. Younger children might be paradoxically free from such interference because their WM and/or body knowledge are insufficient for anatomical imitation. Yet, their limited WM resources would prevent them from successfully managing the conflict between spatial codes involved in complex actions (e.g. moving the left arm and the right leg). We also found evidence that action side and content might be stored in separate short‐term memory (STM) systems: increasing the number of sides to be encoded only affected side retrieval, but not content retrieval; symmetrically, increasing the content (number of movements) of the action only affected content retrieval, but not side retrieval. In conclusion, results suggest that anatomical imitation might interfere with specular imitation at age 9 and that STM storages for side and content of actions are separate. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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