The claim that human newborns imitate is widely accepted and influential. Yet reliable evidence that newborns match modeled behaviors is limited, and there is no empirically based explanation of how the knowledge that imitation requires could develop before birth. In their target article, Keven & Akins (K&A) contribute important new evidence to an alternative account of newborns' matching that challenges the newborn imitation claim.

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反对新生儿模仿的案例越来越多

人类新生儿模仿的说法被广泛接受和影响。然而，新生儿与模仿行为相匹配的可靠证据是有限的，并且没有基于经验的解释来解释模仿所需的知识如何在出生前发展。在他们的目标文章中，Keven & Akins (K&A) 提供了重要的新证据来证明新生儿匹配的另一种说法，挑战新生儿模仿的说法。