Experiments in Learning by Imitation - Grounding and Use of Communication in Robotic Agents

Social learning theory studies the mechanisms by which an agent learns from its interactions with conspecific agents. Examples of social learning can be found in the animal kingdom, and especially in primate societies, whereby, for instance, one agent learns new skills by the observation and imitation of another agent’s behaviour. At present there is no widely agreed definition of imitation existing in the animal and human psychology literature. The variety of defAdaptive Behavior 1999, 7(3), 411-434