title: The effect of language cues on infants' representational flexibility in a deferred imitation task.
abstract: Twelve- and 15-month-old infants who received simple verbal cues at encoding and retrieval exhibited superior representational flexibility on an imitation task compared to infants who did not receive those cues. Verbal cues can help early-verbal infants overcome perceptual dissimilarity and express knowledge in novel situations.
authors.affiliation: University of Sheffield, Department of Psychology, Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, United Kingdom. j.s.herbert@sheffield.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jane S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Herbert
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D002663:Child Language; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007223:Infant; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D014706:Verbal Learning