The study sheds new light on the nature of imitative learning in 14-month-olds. It is demonstrated that while infants of this age can indeed imitate a novel means modelled to them, they do so only if the action is seen by them as the most rational alternative to the goal available within the constraints of the situation. The findings support the ‘rational imitation’ account over current ‘imitat...

Imitation is a powerful form of learning commonly used by children, adults and infants. A child's enthusiasm for imitative behavior prompts parental attention and interaction, and provides a mechanism for transmitting appropriate cultural and social behavior. Although simple imitative behavior is evident in the postnatal period, by around 14 months infants remember and repeat actions they obser...

Recent evidence suggests that automatic imitation is mediated by an observation-execution matching system that cannot be reduced to the same processes responsible for other stimulusresponse (S-R) compatibilities. A computational model is developed with different patterns of connectivity for imitative and spatial compatibilities, and it is successful in simulating the results from three differen...

We argue that infants perform an abstraction over their auditory representations of the vowels of individual speakers, by mapping them to a mediating space of speaker-independent representations, guided by vocal imitative interaction with their caretakers, as a first step in the phonological acquisition process. Furthermore, we proffer a methodology for modeling this abstraction which involves ...

Children seem to have a natural tendency to imitate and their interest for particular kinds of imitative behaviour varies greatly with the infant’s age. We argue that different forms of children’s early imitation may be the result of an intrinsic motivation system driving the infant into situations of maximal learning progress. We present a computational model showing how an agent can learn to ...

The purpose of this study is to find the genealogy counterfeit goods from Indonesian experience. This uses as a method for understanding discourse, whether it written in library or spoken terms proverbs, words wisdom, social praxis that has become local wisdom. Indonesia was inseparable historical roots global capitalism which were embedded through Auteurswet 1912. term related copyright and in...

Imitation and innovation work in tandem to support cultural learning in children and facilitate our capacity for cumulative culture. Here we propose an integrated theoretical account of how the unique demands of acquiring instrumental skills and cultural conventions provide insight into when children imitate, when they innovate, and to what degree. For instrumental learning, with an increase in...

Additive manufacturing (AM) can quickly and easily obtain lattice structures with light weight excellent mechanical properties. Body-centered cubic (BCC) structure is a basic type of structure. BCC Z strut (BCCZ) derivative structure, it has good adaptability to AM. Generally, the thickness each pillar in BCCZ uniform, which results uneven stress distribution pillar. This makes potential high s...

We discuss a reinforcement learning framework where learners observe experts interacting with the environment. Our approach is to construct from these observations exploratory policies which favor selection of actions the expert has taken. This imitation strategy can be applied at any stage of learning, and requires neither that information regarding reinforcement be conveyed from the expert to...

A recent study reported a significant increase in teenage suicides after television newscasts about suicide in the period 1973-1979 and suggested that the increase might have resulted from an imitative effect of television. In the present study, the authors found no significant association between newscasts and subsequent teenage suicides over the period 1973-1984. Although teenage suicides inc...