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Does it pay to imitate? No evidence for social gains from lexical imitation

According to an influential hypothesis, people imitate motor movements to foster social interactions. Could imitation of language serve a similar function? We investigated this question in two pre-registered experiments. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to alternate naming pictures and match...

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Autores principales: Lelonkiewicz, Jarosław R., Pickering, Martin J., Branigan, Holly P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34849245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211107