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Imitation and social learning
  • Imitation and identification in autism R.P. Hobson and A. Lee. J. Child Psychology. Vol 40, No4, pp. 649-659. 1999.

  • The ethological analysis of imitation A. Miklosi, Biological Review,74,347-374,1999.

  • The Evolution of Imitative Learning, Bruce R. Moore, Social Learning in Animals: The Roots of Culture, 245--265. 1996.

  • Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood J. Piaget, 1962, NewYork: Norton.


Imitation and Robotics
  • Is imitation learning the route to humanoid robots? Schaal, S., 1999, Trends in Cognitive Sciences,3(6), 233-242.

  • Learning from Demonstration Schaal, S., 1997, M.C. Mozer and M. Jordan and T. Petsche (eds), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 9, pp. 1040-1046.

  • Fixation Behavior in Observation and Imitation of Human Movement, Maja J Mataric and Marc Pomplun, Cognitive Brain Research, 7(2), 1998, 191-202.

  • Perceptuo-Motor Primitives in Imitation , John Demiris and Maja J Mataric, in Working Notes, Autonomous Agents '98 Workshop on Agents In Interaction - Acquiring Competence Through Imitation, Minneapolis/St. Paul, May 10, 1998.

  • Sensory-Motor Primitives as a Basis for Imitation: Linking Perception to Action and Biology to Robotics, Maja Mataric, MIT Press book: Imitation in Animals and Artifacts Ed. by K. Dautenhahn & C. L. Nehaniv.

  • Learning motor skills by imitation: a biologically inspired robotic model.
    Aude Billard. Cybernetics & Systems Journal, special issue on Imitation in animals and artifacts. Oct. 1999.

  • Transmitting Communication Skills through Imitation in Autonomous robots. Aude Billard and Gillian Hayes. in "Learning Robots: A Multi-Perspective Exploration", A. Birk and J. Demiris (eds.), LNAI Series, Springer-Verlag, 1998.




Imitation and language
  • Language within our grasp , G. Rizzolati and M. A. Arbib, Trends Neurosciences,21, 1998, pp. 188-194.

  • The mirror System, Imitation and the Evolution of Language Michael Arbib. MIT Press book: Imitation in Animals and Artifacts Ed. by K. Dautenhahn & C. L. Nehaniv.

  • Imitation: a means to enhance learning of a synthetic proto-language in an autonomous robot. Aude Billard, MIT Press book: Imitation in Animals and Artifacts Ed. by K. Dautenhahn & C. L. Nehaniv. 2000.

  • On linking nonverbal imitation, representation and language: Learning in the first two years of life, A. N. Meltzoff and A. Gopnik, The many faces of imitation in language learning, 23-52, Springer Verlag. 1989.

  • The evolving nature of imitation as a format for communication J. Nadel and C. Guerini and A. Peze and C. Rivet, 1999, Imitation in Infancy, 209-234, Cambridge University Press.

  • Language and imitation: Informational processing and the elementary units of speech. J. R. Skoyle. Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on imitation in animals and artifacts, April 1999.

  • Imitation: a bootstrap for learning to speak, G. Speidel, 1989. The many faces of imitation in language learning, 151-180, Springer Verlag




Mirror neurons
  • Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions G. Rizzolati and L. Fadiga and V. Gallese and L. Fogassi, Cognitive Brain Research, 3, 1996, pp. 131-141.

  • Motor facilitation during action observation: A magnetic simulation study L. Fadiga and L. Fogassi and G. Pavesi and G. Rizzolatti, Journal of NeuroPhysiology, 1995, pp. 2608-2611.

  • Cortical Mechanisms of Human Imitation, Iacoboni, M. and Woods, R.P. and Brass, M. and Bekkering, H. and Mazziotta, J.C. and Rizzolatti, G, Science, 1999, 286, pp. 2526-2528.

  • ... and more, see the papers repository in Robert Branch's office, Sal 218.

    Note that this page is not a comprehensive review of related literature, but covers only relevant papers of the members of our group and papers which were discussed through our meetings.

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