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Are you like me? Maybe, but I will not imitate you! A longitudinal study on newborns and infants’ imitation and conspecific identification skills
DownloadFall 2017
Imitation abilities in infancy have long been proposed to be the building blocks of later social cognition skills (e.g., Gopnik & Meltzoff, 1994). Although Piaget (1953, 1962) argued that it was only in the coordination of secondary schemes that infants showed signs of true imitation, his...
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Understanding the role of Clostridioides difficile and Vitamin D supplementation in shaping the gut microbiome of Canadian infants
DownloadSpring 2019
Introduction: The gut microbiome is shaped during infancy and has an important role in the development of both the immune and metabolic systems. Many early life exposures and events contribute to the composition of this complex intestinal environment, notably early infant diet and breastfeeding....