Imitation in Animals and Artifacts illustrated edition Edition(English, Hardcover, unknown)

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Imitation in Animals and Artifacts illustrated edition Edition(English, Hardcover, unknown) is written by unknown and published by MIT Press Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0262042037 (ISBN 10) and 9780262042031 (ISBN 13).

The effort to explain the imitative abilities of humans and other animals draws on fields as diverse as animal behavior, artificial intelligence, computer science, comparative psychology, neuroscience, primatology, and linguistics. This volume represents a first step toward integrating research from those studying imitation in humans and other animals, and those studying imitation through the construction of computer software and robots. Imitation is of particular importance in enabling robotic or software agents to share skills without the intervention of a programmer and in the more general context of interaction and collaboration between software agents and humans. Imitation provides a way for the agent -- whether biological or artificial -- to establish a "social relationship" and learn about the demonstrator's actions, in order to include them in its own behavioral repertoire. Building robots and software agents that can imitate other artificial or human agents in an appropriate way involves complex problems of perception, experience, context, and action, solved in nature in various ways by animals that imitate.