how to cite this article: jalili m, jahangiri n, yazdi aa, ashrafzadeh f. the effects of imitative vs. cognitive methods on the speech development of children with autism. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):37-46. objective the present study was performed to examine the effects of two speech therapy methods on six verbal behaviors of autistic children, including oral speech, listening, orga...

We present an initial comparative evaluation between monotonic mixing and the traditional linear weighted combination of tactics in a multi-issue negotiation scenario. As the traditional mixing method may produce a non-monotonic sequence of utilities of proposed offers in case imitative and non-imitative tactics are mixed together (even when weights are static) we demonstrate that both agents c...

Imitative compatibility, or automatic imitation, has been used as a measure of imitative performance and as a behavioral index of the functioning of the human mirror system (e.g., Brass, Bekkering, Wohlschlager, & Prinz, 2000; Heyes, Bird, Johnson, & Haggard, 2005; Kilner, Paulignan, & Blakemore, 2003). However, the use of imitative compatibility as a measure of imitation has been criticized on...

The notion that cooperation can aid a group of agents to solve problems more efficiently than if those agents worked in isolation is prevalent in computer science and business circles. Here we consider a primordial form of cooperation - imitative learning - that allows an effective exchange of information between agents, which are viewed as the processing units of a social intelligence system o...

OBJECTIVE The present study was performed to examine the effects of two speech therapy methods on six verbal behaviors of autistic children, including oral speech, listening, organizing, speaking, semantics, and syntax. MATERIALS & METHODS IN THIS STUDY, THIRTY CHILDREN WITH AUTISM WERE ASSIGNED TO ONE OF TWO GROUPS: imitative and cognitive groups. Before starting the main procedures of the s...

The human tendency to imitate gestures performed by conspecifics is automatic in nature. However, whether this automatic imitation can be considered as a true imitative phenomenon or only as a special instance of spatial compatibility is still being debated. New evidence suggests that automatic imitation, otherwise known as 'imitative compatibility', shall be considered as a phenomenon that ope...

The study of imitative learning in animals has suffered from the presence of a number of confounding motivational and attentional factors (e.g., social facilitation and stimulus enhancement). The two-action method avoids these problems by exposing observers to demonstrators performing a response (e.g., operating a treadle) using 1 of 2 distinctive topographies (e.g., by pecking or by stepping)....

It is widely accepted that patients with frontal lesions have problems inhibiting automatic response tendencies. Whereas inhibition deficits of overlearned responses have been extensively investigated using interference tasks like the Stroop task (J. R. Stroop, 1935), it is controversial whether patients with frontal brain lesions also have problems inhibiting imitative responses. Using an inte...

This paper introduces an evolutionary dynamics based on imitate the better realization (IBR) rule. Under this rule, agent in a population game imitates strategy of randomly chosen opponent whenever opponent’s realized payoff is higher than his or her own. Such behavior generates mean which depends order payoffs, but not their magnitudes, and polynomial utilization frequencies. We demonstrate th...