When actions are carved at the joints

We focus on Byrne & Russon's argument that program-level imitation is drive n by hierarchically organized goals, and the related claim that to establis h whether observed behavior is evidence of program-level imitation, empiric al studies of imitation must use multi-stage actions as imitative tasks. Ne agree that goals play an indispensable role in the generation of action an d imitative behavior but argue that multi-goal tasks, not only multi-stage tasks, reveal program-level imitation.