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===Ability to 'mimic' faces=== A commonly disputed topic is the age at which we can mimic facial expressions. * Infants as young as two days are capable of mimicking an adult, able to note details like mouth and eye shape as well as move their own muscles to produce similar patterns.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Field|first1=T.|last2=Woodson|first2=R|last3=Greenberg|first3=R|last4=Cohen|first4=D|title=Discrimination and imitation of facial expression by neonates|journal=Science|date=8 October 1982|volume=218|issue=4568|pages=179β181|doi=10.1126/science.7123230|pmid=7123230|bibcode=1982Sci...218..179F }}</ref> * However, the idea that infants younger than two could mimic [[facial expressions]] was disputed by Susan S. Jones, who believed that infants are unaware of the emotional content encoded within [[facial expressions]], and also found they are not able to imitate [[facial expressions]] until their second year of life. She also found that mimicry emerged at different ages.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Susan S.|title=The development of imitation in infancy|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|date=27 August 2009|volume=364|issue=1528|pages=2325β35|doi=10.1098/rstb.2009.0045|pmid=19620104|pmc=2865075 }}</ref>
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