The hidden structure of overimitation

By D. Lyons, Andrew G. Young, Frank C. Keil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions (2010, background): “Supporting evidence comes from developmental psychology, which documents a potent tendency for “over-imitation” in children, and recently demonstrated how deeply overimitation influences our acquisition and encoding of concepts345 (Lyons et al. 2007).”
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation (2011, background): “The availability of large amounts of valuable cultural information would have favored the evolution of bigger brains equipped to acquire, store, organize, and retrieve cultural information, a fact that may explain the rapid increase in human encephalization over the last 500,000 y and the evolution ”
Investigating the Mechanisms of Cultural Acquisition How Pervasive is Overimitation in Adults (2012, methodology): “…when the demonstrator’s irrelevant actions break the “contact principle,” that is, the rule that mechanical interactions cannot occur at a distance (Lyons et al., 2007), when 3-year-old children watch a video demonstration of a model’s hands completing the task, in contrast to a live…”
Task-specific effects of ostracism on imitative fidelity in early childhood☆ (2014, background): “Previous research on overimitation has found that high fidelity imitation increases with age (Lyons et al., 2007; McGuigan et al., 2007; Whiten et al., 2009; Herrmann et al., 2013; Yu & Kushnir, 2013).”
Abstraction Levels for Robotic Imitation: Overview and Computational Approaches (2010, background): “Over-imitation can be diminished by reducing the social cues or by increasing the urgency of task completion [21, 85, 88].”
Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “This tendency is so strong that both adults and children conform to others even when they know better themselves (Asch 1956; Haun and Tomasello 2011; see also Lyons, Young, and Keil 2007, on children’s tendency to overimitate).”
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation (2011, neutral): “In human cultures almost any action, even when it seems arbitrary, unnecessary or even counterproductive, could, for some reason, be relevant and important to be learnt [7,29-31].”
Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: children's imitation is affected by model age over model knowledge state (2012, background): “The children's selective reproduction of causally irrelevant actions suggests that this phenomenon may not be as pervasive as previously thought (Lyons et al., 2007; Nielsen & Tomaselli, 2010) in that the replication of irrelevant actions was modulated in response to a model's characteristics.”
The Early Ontogeny of Social Norms (2013, background): “reasoning (Lyons et al., 2007).”
Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee (2009, background): “Lyons et al. (2007) even repeated the experiment with explicit instructions to avoid irrelevant acts.”