Research Catalog

Title

Imitation in animals and artifacts / edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

• Nehaniv, Chrystopher L., 1963-
• Dautenhahn, Kerstin.

Description

xv, 607 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Complex adaptive systems

Uniform Title

Complex adaptive systems.

Subject

• Imitation > Congresses
• Learning in animals > Congresses
• Machine learning > Congresses

Note

• "A Bradford book."
• Papers presented at a meeting held in Edinburgh, Scotland, Apr. 7-9, 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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 and Dana Kedzier / [et al.] -- 8. Imitation of Sequential and Hierarchical Structure in Action: Experimental Studies with Children and Chimpanzees / Andrew Whiten -- 9. Three Sources of Informatics in Social Learning / Josep Call and Malinda Carpenter --
• 10. The Mirror System, Imitation, and the Evolution of Language / Michael A. Arbib -- 11. Imitation: A Means to Enhance Learning of a Synthetic Protolanguage 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. Challenges 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? Modeling Simple Mechanisms for Social Information Processing / Jason Noble and Peter M. 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.

ISBN

0262042037 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001054644

OCLC

• ocm48390815
• SCSB-4297558

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries