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The primary research activities of our team at the Laboratoire de Psychobiologie de l’Enfant in Paris involve the development of social communication during the first 3 to 4 years of life. We have focused on what might be called the hidden face of early social competence. More precisely, we have been involved in the functional analysis of transitory adaptation — the examination of behavior that either declines or disappears during the early stages of development.
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Nadel, J., Fontaine, AM. (1989). Communicating by Imitation: A Developmental and Comparative Approach to Transitory Social Competence. In: Schneider, B.H., Attili, G., Nadel, J., Weissberg, R.P. (eds) Social Competence in Developmental Perspective. NATO ASI Series, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2442-0_9
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