Sensory-motor primitives as a basis for imitation: Linking perception to action and biology to robotics

MJ Matarić - 2002 - direct.mit.edu
15.1 Introduction Imitation is a powerful means of skill acquisition, social interaction, and
cultural transfer. Although popular notions of ''monkeying''and ''parroting''make the …

Fixation behavior in observation and imitation of human movement

MJ Matarić, M Pomplun - Cognitive Brain Research, 1998 - Elsevier
This paper describes experiments performed with 40 subjects wearing an eye-tracker and
watching and imitating videos of finger, hand, and arm movements. For all types of stimuli …