By Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn
ISBN-10: 0521845114
ISBN-13: 9780521845113
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn (eds.)
Mechanisms of imitation and social matching play a basic function in improvement, verbal exchange, interplay, studying and tradition. Their research in several brokers (animals, people and robots) has considerably stimulated our knowing of the character and origins of social intelligence. when such matters have normally been studied in parts equivalent to psychology, biology and ethnology, it has develop into more and more regarded 'constructive approach' in the direction of imitation and social studying through the synthesis of synthetic brokers offers vital insights into mechanisms and create artefacts that may be steered and taught through imitation, demonstration, and social interplay instead of via particular programming. This e-book stories more and more subtle types and mechanisms of social matching behaviour and marks a tremendous step in the direction of the improvement of an interdisciplinary learn box, consolidating and supplying a useful reference for the expanding variety of researchers within the box of imitation and social studying in robots, people and animals.
Reviews:
"Imitation and Social studying in Robots, people, and Animals advances our figuring out of the variety of “imitations” and what kind of is to be realized from evaluating them throughout species as various as parrots, butterflies, or even a male cuttlefish impersonating a feminine in a breeding pair - and thence to people and their primate cousins and the mind mechanisms which aid imitation and social studying. This booklet deals a wealthy set of processing innovations of value to key components of machine technology, like robotics and embodied conversation - and this new realizing elements again into novel theories of human social interplay and its disorders."
Michael Arbib, college Professor, Fletcher Jones Chair in machine technological know-how and Professor of organic Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, collage of Southern California
"Imitation has turn into the most well liked of multi-disciplinary themes lately. Nehaniv and Dautenhan have led the best way in recognising the very precise strength for cross-fertilisation among engineers endeavouring to create actually imitative robots and researchers learning imitation in average structures, from parrots to humans. during this mammoth new state of the art quantity, they bring about jointly prime figures to supply an unheard of appraisal of the main matters and the latest discoveries during this field."
Andrew Whiten, Wardlaw Professor of Psychology, collage of St Andrews
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In contrast with AIM and GOADI, ASL suggests that the formation of effector-dependent representations of observed action occurs, and is not unusual. More specifically, it proposes that observation-activated motor representations will be effector-dependent to the extent that prior visual experience of each movement component has been paired with activation of a distinct and constant muscle set. This condition is likely to be met by finger movements. When a person looks at their hands while performing finger movements, the sight of, for example, the left index finger lifting will be paired more reliably with activation of muscles in the left index finger than with activation of muscles in the left ring finger or the right index finger.
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These important social functions of imitation have been largely neglected in the recent literature on imitation. g. g. communicative, interpersonal, emotional) functions. The authors also show that infants’ tendencies to imitate, and their motivations for doing so, develop and change in the first few years of life. This chapter emphasises the multi-faceted nature of imitation, in order to expand our view of this complex and critical ability. 17 The progress drive hypothesis: an interpretation of early imitation Fr´ed´eric Kaplan and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Children seem to have a natural tendency to imitate and their interest for particular kinds of imitative behaviour varies greatly with the infant’s age.
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