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...

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Published in:	British Journal of Psychology Vol. 114; no. 3; pp. 678 - 710
Main Authors:	Ottoboni, Giovanni, Toraldo, Alessio, Proietti, Riccardo, Cangelosi, Angelo, Tessari, Alessia
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Aug2023
Subjects:	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
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