The embodied statistician
How do infants, children, and adults learn grammatical rules from the mere observation of grammatically structured sequences? We present an embodied hypothesis that a) people covertly imitate stimuli; b) imitation tunes the particular neuromuscular systems used in the imitation, facilitating transi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2010-11-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00184/full |