Neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040302 (literal)
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  • Ferrari PF; Visalberghi E; Paukner A; Fogassi L; Ruggiero A; Suomi SJ (2006)
    Neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques
    in PLoS biology
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  • Ferrari PF; Visalberghi E; Paukner A; Fogassi L; Ruggiero A; Suomi SJ (literal)
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  • 1501 (literal)
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  • 1508 (literal)
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  • http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040302 (literal)
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  • 4 (literal)
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  • Ferrari PF: Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva e Funzionale & Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Parma Visalberghi E: CNR, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione Paukner A: Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA Fogassi L: Dipartimento di Neuroscienze & Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Parma Ruggiero A: Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA Suomi SJ: Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA (literal)
Titolo
  • Neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques (literal)
Abstract
  • The emergence of social behaviors early in life is likely crucial for the development of mother - infant relationships. Some of these behaviors, such as the capacity of neonates to imitate adult facial movements, were previously thought to be limited to humans and perhaps the ape lineage. Here we report the behavioral responses of infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to the following human facial and hand gestures: lip smacking, tongue protrusion, mouth opening, hand opening, and opening and closing of eyes (control condition). In the third day of life, infant macaques imitate lip smacking and tongue protrusion. On the first day of life, the model's mouth openings elicited a similar matched behavior (lip smacking) in the infants. These imitative responses are present at an early stage of development, but they are apparently confined to a narrow temporal window. Because lip smacking is a core gesture in face-to-face interactions in macaques, neonatal imitation may serve to tune infants' affiliative responses to the social world. Our findings provide a quantitative description of neonatal imitation in a nonhuman primate species and suggest that these imitative capacities, contrary to what was previously thought, are not unique to the ape and human lineage. We suggest that their evolutionary origins may be traced to affiliative gestures with communicative functions. (literal)
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