Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:04:07 -0400
From: Bill Benzon <bbenzon@meta4inc.com>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Associative learning versus imitation - JoM Article
Mario Vaneechoutte wrote:
> Let us agree that humans are much better in this. Then the question boils down
> to: from what age on do babies imitate visually observable events?
quite well-known (Metzler is the name to search for). Look at a neonate and stick
our your tongue or flutter your eyelashes. She'll imitate you.
> Or is this imitation somehow instructed by parents?
There's some question as to whether or not this can be called imitation. But it's
certainly not instructed.
Bill B
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