| List of plates | page x | ||
| List of figures | xii | ||
| List of tables | xvii | ||
| List of contributors | xiii | ||
| Introduction: the constructive interdisciplinary viewpoint for understanding mechanisms and models of imitation and social learning |
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| CHRYSTOPHER L. NEHANIV AND KERSTIN DAUTENHAHN |
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| Part I | Correspondence problems and mechanisms | 19 | |
| 1 | Imitation: thoughts about theories | 23 | |
| GEOFFREY BIRD AND CECILIA HEYES | |||
| 2 | Nine billion correspondence problems | 35 | |
| CHRYSTOPHER L. NEHANIV | |||
| 3 | Challenges and issues faced in building a framework for conducting research in learning from observation |
47 | |
| DARRIN BENTIVEGNA, CHRISTOPHER ATKESON AND GORDON CHENG |
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| Part II | Mirroring and ‘mind-reading’ | 67 | |
| 4 | A neural architecture for imitation and intentional relations |
71 | |
| MARCO IACOBONI, JONAS KAPLAN AND STEPHEN WILSON |
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| 5 | Simulation theory of understanding others: a robotics perspective |
89 | |
| YIANNIS DEMIRIS AND MATTHEW JOHNSON | |||
| 6 | Mirrors and matchings: imitation from the perspective of mirror-self-recognition, and the parietal region’s involvement in both |
103 | |
| ROBERT W. MITCHELL | |||
| Part III | What to imitate? | 131 | |
| 7 | The question of ‘what to imitate’: inferring goals and intentions from demonstrations |
135 | |
| MALINDA CARPENTER AND JOSEP CALL | |||
| 8 | Learning of gestures by imitation in a humanoid robot | 153 | |
| SYLVAIN CALINON AND AUDE BILLARD | |||
| 9 | The dynamic emergence of categories through imitation | 179 | |
| TONY BELPAEME, BART DE BOER AND BART JANSEN | |||
| Part IV | Development and embodiment | 195 | |
| 10 | Copying strategies by people with autistic spectrum disorder: why only imitation leads to social cognitive development |
199 | |
| JUSTIN H. G. WILLIAMS | |||
| 11 | A Bayesian model of imitation in infants and robots | 217 | |
| RAJESH P. N. RAO, AARON P. SHON AND ANDREW N. MELTZOFF |
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| 12 | Solving the correspondence problem in robotic imitation across embodiments: synchrony, perception and culture in artifacts |
249 | |
| ARIS ALISSANDRAKIS, CHRYSTOPHER L. NEHANIV AND KERSTIN DAUTENHAHN |
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| Part V | Synchrony and turn-taking as communicative mechanisms |
275 | |
| 13 | How to build an imitator | 279 | |
| ARNAUD REVEL AND JACQUELINE NADEL | |||
| 14 | Simulated turn-taking and development of styles of motion |
301 | |
| TAKASHI IKEGAMI AND HIROKI IIZUKA | |||
| 15 | Bullying behaviour, empathy and imitation: an attempted synthesis |
323 | |
| KERSTIN DAUTENHAHN, SARAH N. WOODS AND CHRISTINA KAOURI |
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| Part VI | Why imitate? – Motivations | 341 | |
| 16 | Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy | 343 | |
| MARK NIELSEN AND VIRGINIA SLAUGHTER | |||
| 17 | The progress drive hypothesis: an interpretation of early imitation |
361 | |
| FRéDéRIC KAPLAN AND PIERRE-YVES OUDEYER | |||
| Part VII | Social feedback | 379 | |
| 18 | Training behavior by imitation: from parrots to people . . . to robots? |
383 | |
| IRENE M. PEPPERBERG AND DIANE V. SHERMAN | |||
| 19 | Task learning through imitation and human–robot interaction |
407 | |
| MONICA N. NICOLESCU AND MAJA J. MATARI | |||
| Part VIII | The ecological context | 425 | |
| 20 | Emulation learning: the integration of technical and social cognition |
427 | |
| LUDWIG HUBER | |||
| 21 | Mimicry as deceptive resemblance: beyond the one-trick ponies |
441 | |
| MARK D. NORMAN AND TOM TREGENZA | |||
| Index | 455 |