creators_name: Kozima, Hideki creators_name: Nakagawa, Cocoro creators_name: Yano, Hiroyuki editors_name: Prince, Christopher G. editors_name: Demiris, Yiannis editors_name: Marom, Yuval editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confposter datestamp: 2003-10-04 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:06 metadata_visibility: show title: Emergence of imitation mediated by objects ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: comp-sci-robot full_text_status: public keywords: learning, mirror system, intermodal mapping, imitation, Infanoid, affordance abstract: This paper describes our model of the emergence of a mirror system for imitative learning. The mirror system is an intermodal mapping between someone's action (as seen) and one's own action (to execute). It is widely assumed that the mapping is a geometric transformation between bodies in the visual and motor spaces; however, it is still unclear if the mapping is innate or, if not, how it is acquired. We claim here that the mapping is not a geometric transformation between bodies but a functional correspondence between someone's action on an object for producing an effect and one's own action on the same or similar object for producing a similar effect, which is learnable because both tend to utilize the object's affordance in a similar way. date: 2002 date_type: published volume: 94 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 59-61 refereed: TRUE citation: Kozima, Hideki and Nakagawa, Cocoro and Yano, Hiroyuki (2002) Emergence of imitation mediated by objects. [Conference Poster] document_url: http://cogprints.org/2618/2/Kozima.pdf