AIMC Topic: Imitative Behavior

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Developmental Approach for Behavior Learning Using Primitive Motion Skills.

International journal of neural systems
Imitation learning through self-exploration is essential in developing sensorimotor skills. Most developmental theories emphasize that social interactions, especially understanding of observed actions, could be first achieved through imitation, yet t...

Analysis of facial expressions in parkinson's disease through video-based automatic methods.

Journal of neuroscience methods
BACKGROUND: The automatic analysis of facial expressions is an evolving field that finds several clinical applications. One of these applications is the study of facial bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease (PD), which is a major motor sign of this neu...

Robots Learn to Recognize Individuals from Imitative Encounters with People and Avatars.

Scientific reports
Prior to language, human infants are prolific imitators. Developmental science grounds infant imitation in the neural coding of actions, and highlights the use of imitation for learning from and about people. Here, we used computational modeling and ...

A Bayesian Developmental Approach to Robotic Goal-Based Imitation Learning.

PloS one
A fundamental challenge in robotics today is building robots that can learn new skills by observing humans and imitating human actions. We propose a new Bayesian approach to robotic learning by imitation inspired by the developmental hypothesis that ...

Robot-Mediated Imitation Skill Training for Children With Autism.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) impacts 1 in 68 children in the U.S., with tremendous individual and societal costs. Technology-aided intervention, more specifically robotic intervention, has gained momentum in recent years due to the inherent affinit...

A robot's efficient demonstration cannot reduce 5- to 6-year-old children's over-imitation.

Journal of experimental child psychology
Children tend to imitate inefficient behaviors containing causally irrelevant actions-they over-imitate. Out-group members' efficient demonstration cannot reduce children's over-imitation of in-group members, due to their interpretation of irrelevant...

Development of an Interactive Total Body Robot Enhanced Imitation Therapy for ASD children.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder in which the available therapies target the improvement of social skills, in order to ensure a high quality of life for the child. The use of Social Assistive Robots offers new therapeutic possibilities in whic...

Preliminary Test of the Potential of Contact With Dogs to Elicit Spontaneous Imitation in Children and Adults With Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association
IMPORTANCE: Finding strategies to enhance imitation skills in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is of major clinical relevance.

Imitative and Direct Learning as Interacting Factors in Life History Evolution.

Artificial life
The idea that lifetime learning can have a significant effect on life history evolution has recently been explored using a series of artificial life simulations. These involved populations of competing individuals evolving by natural selection to lea...