title: Imitation: Not in Our Genes.
abstract: A powerful longitudinal study has failed to find any evidence that newborn babies can imitate facial gestures, hand movements or vocalisations. After 40 years of uncertainty, these findings indicate that humans learn to imitate; this capacity is not inborn.
authors.affiliation: All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4AL, UK. Electronic address: cecilia.heyes@all-souls.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Heyes
mesh_terms: D005868:Gestures; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009068:Movement