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Effects of imitation on infant monkeys affiliative and exploratory behaviors in the two different experimental conditions
Mean scores of (a) infant looking time to experimenter, (b) infant LPS and (c) infant’s exploration time. Infant monkeys looked at and lipsmacked to the experimenter more in the stimulus phase than in the still face period both during imitation and control condition. Moreover, after being imitated infants explored objects more than during the imitation period. Error bars show the S.E. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.