Trial-and-error copying of demonstrated actions reveals how fledglings learn to ‘imitate’ their mothers

Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans

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Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect

(2016) Sylvain Alem et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The importance of active search for effective social learning: an experimental test in young passerines

(2015) Noa Truskanov et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Laboratory studies of imitation/field studies of tradition: Towards a synthesis in animal social learning

(2015) Bennett G. Galef   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

What evolves in the evolution of social learning?

(2015) E. Leadbeater   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Wild vervet monkeys copy alternative methods for opening an artificial fruit

(2014) Erica van de Waal et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Mirror neurons: From origin to function

(2014) Richard Cook et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Milk bottles revisited: social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus

(2013) Lucy M. Aplin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Imitation and local enhancement: Detrimental effects of consensus definitions on analyses of social learning in animals

(2013) Bennett G. Galef   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Learning by Observation Emerges from Simple Associations in an Insect Model

(2013) Erika H. Dawson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Coevolution of learning and data-acquisition mechanisms: a model for cognitive evolution

(2012) A. Lotem et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What's social about social learning?

(2011) Cecilia Heyes   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Individual-learning ability predicts social-foraging strategy in house sparrows

(2010) E. Katsnelson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early experience affects producer–scrounger foraging tendencies in the house sparrow

(2007) Edith Katsnelson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR