Imitation—the act of observing and copying the actions of others—is the most important mechanism of learning for infants, toddlers, and young children. Several studies have analyzed different patterns by which children imitate actions. One study showed that children not only imitate actions immediately after observing them, but they also reproduce
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Salt intake has been widely studied in animals. It is not known if similar mechanisms could occur in humans, but in animals, long-term increases in salt preference are caused by sodium depletion,