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abstract: |-
  Historically, a lot of authors in psychology and in
  robotics tend to separate "true imitation" and its
  related high-level mechanisms which seem to be exclusive to human adult, from low-level imitations or
  "mimicries" observed on babies or primates. Closely,
  classical researches suppose that an imitative artificial system must be able to build a model of
  the demonstrator's geometry, in order to reproduce finely the movements on each joints. Conversely, we
  will advocate that if imitation is viewed as a part of a
  developmental course, then (1) an artificial developing system does not need to build any internal model
  of the other, to perform real-time and low-level imitations of human movements despite the related correspondence problem between man and robot and,
  (2) a simple sensory-motor loop could be at the basis
  of multiples heterogeneous imitative behaviors often
  explained in the literature by different models.
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  - http://www.lucs.lu.se/ftp/pub/LUCS_Studies/LUCS101/Andry.pdf
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confdates: 'August 4-5, 2003'
conference: 'Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems'
confloc: 'Boston, MA, USA'
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creators_id: []
creators_name:
  - family: Andry
    given: Pierre
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Gaussier
    given: Philippe
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Nadel
    given: Jacqueline
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Courant
    given: Michele
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
date: 2003
date_type: published
datestamp: 2004-02-12
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editors_name:
  - family: Prince
    given: Christopher G.
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Berthouze
    given: Luc
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Kozima
    given: Hideki
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Bullock
    given: Daniel
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Stojanov
    given: Georgi
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
  - family: Balkenius
    given: Christian
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
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keywords: 'imitative artificial system, developing system, self-organizing map, robotic movement control'
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:26
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pagerange: 157-158
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publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
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rev_number: 12
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status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:50:15
subjects:
  - comp-sci-mach-learn
  - comp-sci-neural-nets
  - comp-sci-robot
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title: A Developmental Approach for low-level Imitations
type: confposter
userid: 3507
volume: 101
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