The social construction of the cultural mind: Imitative learning as a mechanism of human pedagogy

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Mentalizing in Practice (2008, background): “Gergely and Csibra (2005) captured this adaptive facet of mentalizing in elucidating our species-specific capacity for pedagogy, which enables us to engage in an extraordinarily rapid and accurate process of teaching and learning.”
'Obsessed with goals': functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans. (2007, background): “Elsewhere we hypothesize that human pedagogy (manifestation of relevant knowledge embedded in means actions) evolved to assist human children to acquire opaque means actions (Csibra & Gergely, 2006; Gergely & Csibra, 2005, 2006 ).”
Sylvia's Recipe: The Role of Imitation and Pedagogy in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge (2006, background): “This system, human pedagogy (Csibra and Gergely 2006; Gergely and Csibra 2005a), have provided a specialized cultural learning mechanism that made relevanceguided selective imitative learning possible.”