Imitation in Animals and Artifacts Book

	Preface
1	The Agent-Based Perspective on Imitation	1
2	The Correspondence Problem	41
3	Vocal, Social, and Self-Imitation by Bottlenosed Dolphins	63
4	Allospecific Referential Speech Acquisition in Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus): Evidence for Multiple Levels of Avian Vocal Imitation	109
5	On Avian Imitation: Cognitive and Ethological Perspectives	133
6	Art Imitates Life: Programming by Example as an Imitation Game	157
7	Learning to Fly	171
8	Imitation of Sequential and Hierarchical Structure in Action: Experimental Studies with Children and Chimpanzees	191
9	Three Sources of Informatics in Social Learning	211
10	The Mirror System, Imitation, and the Evolution of Language	229
11	Imitation: A Means to Enhance Learning of a Synthetic Protolanguage in Autonomous Robots	281
12	Rethinking the Language Bottleneck: Why Don't Animals Learn to Communicate?	311
13	Imitation as a Dual-Route Process Featuring Predictive and Learning Components: A Biologically Plausible Computational Model	327
14	Challenges in Building Robots That Imitate People	363
15	Sensory-Motor Primitives as a Basis for Imitation: Linking Perception to Action and Biology to Robotics	391
16	Imitation or Something Simpler? Modeling Simple Mechanisms for Social Information Processing	423
17	Imitation as a Perceptual Process	441
18	"Do Monkeys Ape?" - Ten Years After	471
19	Transformational and Associative Theories of Imitation	501
20	Dimensions of Imitative Perception-Action Mediation	525
21	Goal Representations in Imitative Actions	555
22	Information Replication in Culture: Three Modes for the Transmission of Culture Elements through Observed Action	573
	Appendix	587
	Contributors	589
	Index	591