Sentence examples for imitation studies from inspiring English sources

To resolve seemingly contradictory results of imitation studies, a dual route theory of imitation was forwarded that assumes two distinctive types of imitation [32].

It is a common feature of imitation studies that emphasis is laid on the performance in the first trial after observation.

(2011) not only failed to acknowledge this important difference in the interpretation of human children and chimpanzee studies on the one hand and our dog study on the other (as well as other selective imitation studies, such as Horner & Whiten 2005), but also failed to appreciate the reason for using the attribute 'rational' in Gergely et al.'s (2002) paper.

The afore-mentioned over-imitation studies, where people copy both relevant and irrelevant actions demonstrated by others, provides evidence for this.

Computer imitation docking studies were conducted between template proteins and acrylamide monomer to reveal the recognition mechanism of SpA molecularly imprinted polymer.

Those who decry such imitation should study history.

In order to understand why these initiatives may, or may not, develop into new social practices (i.e. become established social innovations), scholars have turned their attention to Tarde's theory of imitation [23], studied so-called social innovation ecosystems [24, 25] and addressed the importance of power and capacity building [26].

This result points towards the involvement of mu in both action observation and motor imagery, and suggests that, when studying imitation and learning of new motor repertoire, one should be careful to distinguish between motor activation resulting from action observation and motor activation reflecting motor imagery.

I discuss ways to resolve apparent conflicts between this interpretation and the findings of double dissociations between pantomime and imitation in clinical case studies and of circumscribed left parietal activation during pantomime in functional neuroimaging.

Natural imitation shown by our studies seems to be the behavior modulated from this elemental function via the joint attention function since the monkey with insufficient eye contact was not able to imitate the human's action [9].

By comparison, the writer praised the design of the Rives house, based on Parisian town houses on the Place Vendôme: "Its total effect is characterized by repose, distinction and style, and it is these qualities which make this house front worthy of study and imitation".