%A Yuval Marom %A George Maistros %A Gillian Hayes %T Towards a Mirror System for the Development of Socially-Mediated Skills %X We present a system that attempts to model the functional role of mirror neurons, namely the activation of structures in response to both the observation of a demonstrated task, and its generation. Through social situatedness and a set of innate skills, perceptual and motor structures develop for recognition and reproduction of demonstrated actions. We believe this is an implementation towards a mirror system, and we test it on two platforms, one in simulation involving imitation of object interactions, the second on a physical robot learning from a human to follow walls. %K innate skills, perceptual and motor structures, mirror system, stimulation, immitation, SOFM %P 87-96 %E Christopher G. Prince %E Yiannis Demiris %E Yuval Marom %E Hideki Kozima %E Christian Balkenius %V 94 %D 2002 %I Lund University Cognitive Studies %L cogprints2518