Origin of cultural learning: Babies imitate because they are imitated
From Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 12/10/23 LMU study shows that babies learn to imitate others because they themselves are imitated by caregivers. People are constantly learning from others without even being aware of it. Social learning avoids laborious trial and error; the wheel does not have to be reinvented each time. But where does this ability come […]