“…The literature shows that infants are capable of encoding and retrieving information about contingent events (Sullivan, Rovee-Collier & Tynes, 1979;Greco, RoveeCollier, Hayne, Griesler & Earley, 1986& Davis & RoveeCollier, 1983 and that relationships between actions and objects can be learned via imitation (Abravanel & Gingold, 1985;Abravanel, Levan-Goldschmidt & Stevenson, 1976;Meltzoff 1985Meltzoff , 1988aMeltzoff & 1988d. However, there are several gaps in the contingency literature.…”