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Sep 2026
Observational Learning and Generalization in Infant Grasps of Novel Tools
ABSTRACT Tool use is a critical skill acquired in infancy. Here, we tested whether infants could learn how to grasp a tool from observing an adult model and whether this learning generalized to a new task and to increasingly dissimilar tools. Infants between 13 and 19 months of age (N = 75; M age = 16.31 months; SDage...
Caroline Danforth, Jane A. Hirtle, Supreethi Sridhar et al.
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