Baby See, Sometimes Baby Do: Babies Decide When To Imitate You

Babies are smart imitators; they mimic your actions only when it helps them learn something new. These are the findings that Natasha Kirkham and Rachel Wu, both at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Ellen Markman, Stanford University, USA, presented at the British Psychological Society Division of Developmental Psychology Annual Conference on Thursday 10 September 2009.