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Insufficient support for either response “priming” or “program-level imitation”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Thomas R. Zentall
Thomas R. Zentall
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 zentall@pop.uky.edu www.uky.edu/artssciences/psychology/faculty/tzentall.html
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Abstract

Byrne & Russon propose that priming can account for the imitation of simple actions, but they fail to explain how the behavior of another can prime the observer's own behavior. They also propose that imitation of complex skills requires a sequence of acts tied together by a program, but they fail to rule out the role of trial-and-error learning and perceptual/motivational mechanisms in such task acquisition.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 708 - 709
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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