Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization

The target article elaborates upon an extant theoretical framework, Imitation and Innovation: The Dual Engines of Cultural Learning. We raise three major concerns: (1) There is limited discussion of cross-cultural universality and variation; (2) overgeneralization of overimitation and omission of other social learning types; and (3) selective imitation in infants and toddlers is not discussed.