{"id":8568,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/newborn_imitation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:07","slug":"newborn_imitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/newborn_imitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn imitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability of human newborns to imitate facial and hand movements when in an appropriate waking behavioural state and under strict experimental conditions. The ability drops out the repertoire to reappear some months later in the form as originally described by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piaget<\/a> (i.e., emulation that involves not just the imitation of ends, but also the means). &nbsp;Such a developmental scenario suggests that newborn imitation may be an ontogenetic adaptation for establishing some form of communication immediately after birth or what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmarc.ed.ac.uk\/people\/colwyntrevarthen.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.pmarc.ed.ac.uk\/people\/colwyntrevarthen.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colwyn Trevarthen<\/a> referred to as &#8216;intersubjective mirroring&#8217; [the notion of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergen.edu\/faculty\/gcronk\/james.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.bergen.edu\/faculty\/gcronk\/james.pdf&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">intersubjectivity<\/a> being something that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/depts\/phil\/philo\/phils\/wjames.html\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/depts\/phil\/philo\/phils\/wjames.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William James<\/a> (1842-1910) struggled to understand].&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"correspondence_problem\">Correspondence problem<\/a>, <a href=\"emulation\">Emulation<\/a>, <a href=\"imitation\">Imitation<\/a>, <a href=\"newborn\">Newborn<\/a>, <a href=\"newborn_behavioral_states\">Newborn behavioral states<\/a>, <a href=\"newborn_swimming\">Newborn swimming<\/a>, <a href=\"ontogenetic_adaptation\">Ontogenetic adaptation<\/a>, <a href=\"pre-reaching\">Pre-reaching<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability of human newborns to imitate facial and hand movements when in an appropriate waking behavioural state and under strict experimental conditions. The ability drops out the repertoire to reappear some months later in the form as originally described by Piaget (i.e., emulation that involves not just the imitation of ends, but also the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/newborn_imitation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newborn imitation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}