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Imagination and imitation: Input, acid test, or alchemy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

C. M. Heyes
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England; c.heyes@ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

Immediate imitation is likely to be a major, direct input to Barresi & Moore's level 2 competence, but deferred imitation is unlikely to play a key role in the transition to level 3, because (1) the attribution of first person knowledge is neither a necessary cause nor an obvious consequence of deferred imitation, and (2) deferred imitation does not correlate phylogenetically with capacities that more plausibly either yield or reflect a concept of intentional agency.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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