Language Acquisition - Deferred Imitation

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Mobile task critique

Maybe it is just a stimulus-response (mobile=kicking=moving)

Piaget's elicit imitation as a tool to study memory

-> Meltzoff (1988): Deferred imitation in 14mo after 1 week

Deferred imitation task

Showed kids at 14 month old and observe a specific odd situation (e.g. Expter pressing heaad against a lamp),
Then kids go home and return after a week
They are given a lamp and he shows that babies repeat the weird behaviour more likely than they would normally without having seen before
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Bauer combine imitation study with EEG

Observe action with a toy and immediately test ERP response to either old vs. New toy
-> show Nc stronger for new toy

The role of frontal cortices

Development of source memory over early and middle childhood

One factor of infantile amnesia could be due to

inability to report what we remember is due to absence of words

Experiment Simcock & Hayne

Invented a machine (put a teddy bear and use the lever and basically comes out a smaller bear)

After a year they asked about that event and explained the lack of memory due to miss of words to explain the cool but weird event

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