That neonates imitate is an assertion that lacks supporting evidence. Orofacial stereotypies are critical to optimizing food rejection. Matching of tongue-protrusion is not imitation, but a manifestation of the infant's arousal by the modeler's exhibition of the same behavior. The support for the nativist assertion that newborn infants imitate is not compelling, and we should proceed on the assumption that they do not.

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妈妈还是我？谁是婴儿口面部刻板印象中的代理人？

新生儿模仿是缺乏支持证据的断言。口面部刻板印象对于优化食物排斥至关重要。舌突的搭配不是模仿，而是模仿者表现出同样的行为来表现婴儿的觉醒。对新生儿模仿的先天论断言的支持并不令人信服，我们应该继续假设他们没有模仿。