Reciprocal imitation training (RIT) is a naturalistic imitation intervention designed to teach spontaneous imitation skills during play.
This is unfair to jazz's most creative vocalists, because the best ones have possessed the same spontaneous ingenuity, technical skill and inventiveness that instrumentalists exhibit – most notably Louis Armstrong, whose trumpet playing and inimitable singing were almost indistinguishable in phrasing.
Kandula, a nine-year-old Asian elephant at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C., has wowed researchers by pushing a box to create a perch to reach hanging fruit, showing that elephants have spontaneous problem-solving skills, according to a study published last month in the science journal PLoS One.
Like De Villiers's own effort before it, the try stemmed from a superb, and spontaneous, piece of individual skill.
It thus takes years of training and expert reading skill before spontaneous processing of printed words' sensorimotor meanings develops in childhood.
We will investigate these using standardised measures of spontaneous motility and imitation skills in both cohorts, pretraining and post-training.
Chances are, your partner will be turned on and excited by your spontaneous risk-taking kissing skills.
It is possible and likely that although the psychologist facilitator does not teach the same structured, CBT-based coping skills in the PSG, peer-discussion may nevertheless facilitate spontaneous discussion around adaptive coping skills, maladaptive/unhelpful thinking styles, or stress reduction strategies for example.
Thus, neuroplastic changes, driven by learning a novel motor skill, shaped subsequent spontaneous activity within the resting brain.
The putative survival skills measured were spontaneous swimming speed and the responsiveness, timing and magnitude of escape responses elicited by artificial stimuli.
