However, using the parameter filter, variables such as age, retention interval, study time and context changes have all been found to influence performance on the VPC, tasks of operant conditioning and imitation procedures (Hayne, 2004; Rovee-Collier, 1997), suggesting these tasks should be considered declarative in nature.
The strong sense of imitation, learning a novel procedure from seeing it done, remains controversial in animals and clear experimental evidence of it is lacking even in chimpanzees [22], [23], [24]; teaching has been clearly demonstrated in only a few species, not particularly those noted for culture [25], [26].
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Chimpanzee culture has generated intense recent interest, fueled by the technical complexity of chimpanzee tool-using traditions; yet it is seriously doubted whether chimpanzees are able to learn motor procedures by imitation under natural conditions.
Much of the early motor development of the child depends on learning and refining such procedures, through play, imitation, trial and error, and incessant rehearsal.
Fugue, in music, a compositional procedure characterized by the systematic imitation of a principal theme (called the subject) in simultaneously sounding melodic lines (counterpoint).
Our procedure was effective in directing the monkey's attention toward the human models for cross-species imitation.
Success always breeds imitation.
Success dictated widespread imitation.
