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Original Article Imitation as Faithful Copying of a Novel Technique in Marmoset Monkeys
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Posted by Matthias on 11 Jul 2007 at 14:47 GMT

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Methodological improvement Posted by fabienne7 on 27 Jul 2007 at 07:16 GMT

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For long imitation research has relied on subjective classifications of the investigators as "this behavior looks similar" or "they did it the same way". The authors of this paper put much effort in getting rid of such vague concepts and tried to formalize objective measures of similarity. This is an important step forward in imitation research. A weak point of this work might be the relatively moderate sample size - however this is (unfortunately) quite common for such studies.

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