"Automatic imitation" is a type of stimulus-response compatibility effect in which the topographical features of task-irrelevant action stimuli facilitate similar, and interfere with dissimilar, responses. This article reviews behavioral, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging research on automatic imitation, asking in what sense it is "automatic" and whether it is "imitation." This body of resea...

Automatic imitation is a cornerstone of nonverbal communication that fosters rapport between interaction partners. Recent research has suggested that stable dimensions of personality are antecedents to automatic imitation, but the empirical evidence linking imitation with personality traits is restricted to a few studies with modest sample sizes. Additionally, atypical imitation has been docume...

Imitation is a common way of acquiring novel behaviors in toddlers. However, little is known about toddlers' imitation of undesired actions. Here we investigated 18- and 24-month-olds' (N=110) imitation of undesired and allowed actions from televised peer and adult models. Permissiveness of the demonstrated actions was indicated by the experimenter's response to their execution (angry or neutra...

Imitation is a powerful form of learning used in many animal societies. Imitation encourages the social interaction and the cultural transfer. Hence, Imitation represents many advantages, which have inspired the roboticists to reach imitation in order to approach social intelligent social intelligent robotics systems. The paper presents a mechanism of imitation, which permits a robot to acquire...

The co-adaptation of robots has been a long-standing research endeavour with the goal adapting both body and behaviour robot for given task, inspired by natural evolution animals. Co-adaptation potential to eliminate costly manual hardware engineering as well improve performance systems. standard approach is use reward function optimizing morphology. However, defining constructing such function...

The control of neurological networks supporting social cognition is crucially important for social interaction. In particular, the control of imitation is directly linked to interaction quality, with impairments associated with disorders characterized by social difficulties. Previous work suggests inferior frontal cortex (IFC) and the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) are involved in controlling i...

6 Imitation—the ability to recognize and reproduce others’ actions— 7 is a powerful means of learning and developing new skills. Species 8 endowed with this capability are provided with fundamental abil9 ities for social learning. In its most complex form, imitation pro10 vides fundamental capabilities for social cognition, such as the rec11 ognition of conspecifics, the attribution of others’ ...

Several algorithms and models have recently been proposed for imitation learning in humans and robots. However, few proposals offer a framework for imitation learning in noisy stochastic environments where the imitator must learn and act under real-time performance constraints. We present a novel probabilistic framework for imitation learning in stochastic environments with unreliable sensors. ...

This study used a concurrent correlational design to examine associations between three types of motor imitation with objects and three proposed correlates in 32 two- and three-year-old children diagnosed with ASD. Attention-following and fine motor ability were significant, unique correlates of imitation in an observational learning context. Attention-following was a significant correlate of i...