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Social Cognition (Imitation (Neonatal (babies!) (Nagy & Molnar:…

- - - - the child realises that others are 'like me' through imitation- he is doing what I am doing - we both have a tongue etc
    - - or perhaps its an evolutionary innate mechanism which aids bonding to parents & therefore aids survival
      - giving the baby too much agency - they aren't communicating they are just responding to parent: who is really in control
        
        same thing as we do with our pets
    - - Rhesus monkeys: Ferrari (2006): monkeys did imitate mouth opening gesture
        
        debatable: not necessarily gesture specific imitation
- - - - Liszkowski experimenter has lost something, child points to it
      - 12/18m old check to see if adult is looking - Franco
    - - often point to things adult is already looking at, hence not social use
    - - for self
      - to attention for themselves
      - for attention for an object
      - to share attention of an object with the adult
        
        most frequent & longer pointing in this condition: evidence for the 'richest view' of joint attention