Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions

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Introduction: The constructive interdisciplinary viewpoint for understanding mechanisms and models of imitation and social learning Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv Part I. Correspondence Problems and Mechanisms: 1. Imitation: thoughts about theories Geoffrey Bird and Cecilia Heyes 2. Nine billion correspondence problems Chrystopher L. Nehaniv 3. Challenges and issues faced in building a framework for conducting research in learning from observation Darrin Bentivegna, Christopher Atkeson and Gordon Cheng Part II. Mirroring and 'Mind-Reading': 4. A neural architecture for imitation and intentional relations Marco Iacoboni, Jonas Kaplan and Stephen Wilson 5. Simulation theory of understanding others: a robotics perspective 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 Robert W. Mitchell Part III. What to Imitate: 7. The question of 'what to imitate': inferring goals and intentions from demonstrations Malinda Carpenter and Josep Call 8. Learning of gestures by imitation in a humanoid robot Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard 9. The dynamic emergence of categories through imitation Tony Belpaeme, Bart de Boer and Bart Jansen Part IV. Development and Embodiment: 10. Copying strategies by people with autistic spectrum disorder: why only imitation leads to social cognitive development Justin H. G. Williams 11. A bayesian model of imitation in infants and robots Rajesh P. N. Rao, Aaron P. Shon and Andrew N. Meltzoff 12. Solving the correspondence problem in robotic imitation across embodiments: synchrony, perception and culture in artefacts Aris Alissandrakis, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Kerstin Dautenhahn Part V. Synchrony and Turn-Taking as Communicative Mechanisms: 13. How to build an imitator? Arnaud Revel and Jacqueline Nadel 14. Simulated turn-taking and development of styles of motion Takashi Ikegami and Hiroki Iizuka 15. Bullying behaviour, empathy and imitation: an attempted synthesis Kerstin Dautenhahn, Sarah N. Woods and Christina Kaouri Part VI. Why Imitate? Motivations: 16. Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy Mark Nielsen and Virginia Slaughter 17. The progress drive hypothesis: an interpretation of early imitation Frederic Kaplan and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Part VII. Social Feedback: 18. Training behaviour by imitation: from parrots to people ... to robots? Irene M. Pepperberg and Diane V. Sherman 19. Task learning through imitation and human-robot interaction Monica N. Nicolescu and Maja J. Mataric Part VIII. The Ecological Context: 20. Emulation learning: the integration of technical and social cognition Ludwig Huber 21. Mimicry as deceptive resemblance: beyond the one-trick ponies Mark D. Norman and Tom Tregenza.

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