TY - JOUR
T1 - No Compelling Evidence That Newborns Imitate Oral Gestures
AU - Anisfeld, Moshe
AU - Turkewitz, Gerald
AU - Rose, Susan A.
AU - Rosenberg, Faigi R.
AU - Sheiber, Faith J.
AU - Couturier-Fagan, Deborah A.
AU - Ger, Joseph S.
AU - Sommer, Iris
PY - 2001/1/1
Y1 - 2001/1/1
N2 - Newboms (N=83) were presented with 3 conditions, each for 160 sec: tongue protrusion (TP), mouth opening (MO), and control (CO). In TP and MO, a female model alternated between demonstrating the gesture for 20 sec and presenting a passive, motionless face for 20 sec. In CO, she presented a passive face in both the "demonstration" and "passive" intervals. The participants' eyes were more widely open in the demonstration intervals of TP and MO than in the passive intervals, indicating that they were attending to the gestures. In TP, the participants produced more TP responses than MO responses, but in MO there was no effect, undermining the neonatal imitation hypothesis.
AB - Newboms (N=83) were presented with 3 conditions, each for 160 sec: tongue protrusion (TP), mouth opening (MO), and control (CO). In TP and MO, a female model alternated between demonstrating the gesture for 20 sec and presenting a passive, motionless face for 20 sec. In CO, she presented a passive face in both the "demonstration" and "passive" intervals. The participants' eyes were more widely open in the demonstration intervals of TP and MO than in the passive intervals, indicating that they were attending to the gestures. In TP, the participants produced more TP responses than MO responses, but in MO there was no effect, undermining the neonatal imitation hypothesis.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0009738454
U2 - 10.1207/S15327078IN0201_7
DO - 10.1207/S15327078IN0201_7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0009738454
SN - 1525-0008
VL - 2
SP - 111
EP - 122
JO - Infancy
JF - Infancy
IS - 1
ER -