Monkeys recognize when they are being imitated, but they seem unable to learn by imitation. These facts make sense if imitation is seen as two different capacities: social mirroring, when actions are matched and have social benefits; and learning by copying, when new behavioural routines are acquired by observation.

Objective: The aim of this paper is to bridge the gap between the corpus of imitation research and video based intervention (VBI) research, and consider the impact imitation skills may be having on VBI outcomes and to what extent this can be utilised to improve outcomes. Method: A review of the imitation literature was conducted focusing on imitation skill deficits in children with autism follo...

The aim in this study was to investigate the emergence of immediate imitation, deferred imitation and synchronic imitation in human infants through the second year. A longitudinal study was conducted of eighty-six infants at three monthly intervals from 12through to 24-months-of-age. At each session the infants were assessed for immediate, deferred and synchronic imitation. Immediate and deferr...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to bridge the gap between the corpus of imitation research and video-based intervention (VBI) research, and consider the impact imitation skills may be having on VBI outcomes and highlight potential areas for improving efficacy. METHOD A review of the imitation literature was conducted focusing on imitation skill deficits in children with autism followed by ...

Sample efficiency is crucial for imitation learning methods to be applicable in real-world applications. Many studies improve sample by extending adversarial off-policy regardless of the fact that these extensions could either change original objective or involve complicated optimization. We revisit foundation and propose an efficient approach requires no training min-max Our formulation capita...