Imitation in Animals and Artifacts

Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (eds.),

Cambridge, Mass., USA: MIT Press, 2002


Contents


    Preface - Imitation in Animals and Artifacts

  1. The Agent-Based Perspective on Imitation
    Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

  2. The Correspondence Problem
    Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Kerstin Dautenhahn

  3. Vocal, Social, and Self Imitation by Bottlenosed Dolphins
    Louis M. Herman

  4. Allospecific Referential Speech Acquisition in Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus): Evidence for Multiple Levels of Avian Vocal Imitation
    Irene M. Pepperberg

  5. On Avian Imitation: Cognitive and Ethological Perspectives
    Johannes Fritz and Kurt Kotrschal

  6. Art Imitates Life: Programming by Example as an Imitation Game
    Henry Lieberman

  7. Learning to Fly
    Claude Sammut, Scott Hurst, Dana Kedzier, and Donald Michie

  8. Imitation of Sequential and Hierarchical Structure in Action: Experimental
    Studies with Children and Chimpanzees
    Andrew Whiten

  9. Three Sources of Information in Social Learning
    Josep Call and Malinda Carpenter

  10. The Mirror System, Imitation, and the Evolution of Language
    Michael Arbib

  11. Imitation: A Means to Enhance Learning of a Synthetic Proto-Language in Autonomous Robots
    Aude Billard

  12. Rethinking the Language Bottleneck: Why Don't Animals Learn to Communicate?
    Michael Oliphant

  13. Imitation as a Dual-Route Process Featuring Predictive and Learning
    Components: A Biologically-Plausible Computational Model
    John Demiris and Gillian Hayes

  14. Issues in Building Robots that Imitate People
    Cynthia Breazeal and Brian Scassellati

  15. Sensory-Motor Primitives as a Basis for Imitation: Linking Perception to
    Action and Biology to Robotics
    Maja J. Mataric

  16. Imitation or Something Simpler? Modelling Simple Mechanisms for Social Information Processing
    Jason Noble and Peter Todd

  17. Imitation as a Perceptual Process
    Robert W. Mitchell

  18. Do Monkeys Ape? - Ten Years After
    Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Fragaszy

  19. Transformational and Associative Theories of Imitation
    Cecilia Heyes

  20. Dimensions of Imitative Perception-Action Mediation
    Stefan Vogt

  21. Goal Representations in Imitative Actions
    Harold Bekkering and Wolfgang Prinz

  22. Information Replication in Culture: Three Modes for the Transmission of
    Culture Elements through Observed Action
    Oliver R. Goodenough

    List of Contributors

    Appendix