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Andrew N. Meltzoff

Researcher at University of Washington

Publications -  326
Citations -  44488

Andrew N. Meltzoff is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Imitation & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 101, co-authored 318 publications receiving 41549 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew N. Meltzoff include University of Oxford & Chiba University.

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Learning to make things happen: Infants' observational learning of social and physical causal events.

TL;DR: Findings about infant observational causal learning have implications for children's rapid nonverbal learning about people, things, and their causal relations.
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Exploring the Infant Social Brain: What's Going on in There?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore learning opportunities that occur during everyday interchanges between adults and infants and how these influence the brain and examine longitudinal data to understand how children's earliest social interactions set the stage for school readiness and lifelong learning.
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Why Faces are Special to Infants — on Connecting the Attraction of Faces and Infants’ Ability for Imitation and Cross-Modal Processing

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-modal hypothesis about why faces are attractive and meaningful to infants is proposed, and the results show that there is no disappearance or drop out of imitation in early infancy; however, infants develop social expectations about face-to-face interaction that sometimes supersede imitation.
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Neural measures of anticipatory bodily attention in children: Relations with executive function

TL;DR: It is suggested that anticipatory mu desynchronization has utility as a specific neural marker of attention focusing in young children, which in turn may be implicated in the development of executive function.