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Mohd Harish


, Susan S. "Imitation in Infancy: The Development of Mimicry." Psychological Science (Wiley-Blackwell) 18.7 (2007): 593-599. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Apr. 2011.
Susan John, professor at Indiana University discusses the imitation in infants in this technical communication. Study on deferred imitation suggests that before Constituting an imitation, infants emulate the actions. Mother is the primary source of imitation. Infants imitate mouth opening, tongue protruding, pouting, sequential finger movements, and head turning. The most common response of young infants is tongue protruding to any interesting stimulus. The ability of imitating particular motor skill takes at least 2 years. Adult’s imitations of infant, acquire through the actions and words for infant’s production of the associated behavior. However, the imitation period is spontaneous with age. Particularly, at the age of 6 months, infants reflect interest in parent’s actions. Imitation was not the subject of research because researchers accepted it as a talented of inherited qualities.

This source would be helpful to analyze the visual implementation of my Primary source. In detail, in primary source’s focus was a baby on seaman seed bun, suckling it like breastfeeding. For 6 month old infant, imitation is the way to learn little about new world. So, this source describes, how infants in general learn from their parents, mostly for their mothers. In plain English, infant cannot perform suckling task in way baby did. There had to have incentive or imitation to get that image on ads. So, there are two possibilities, one imitation, second, before capturing that picture, they may put baby food on the bun so that baby could suckle. In imitation analysis, this source leads to great explanation.