Neonatal imitation is a cornerstone in many theoretical accounts of human development and
social behavior, yet its existence has been debated for the past 40 years. To examine …

Parent‐infant social interactions start early in development, with infants showing active
communicative expressions by just two months. A key question is how this social capacity …

Over the past decade, a growing number of publications have claimed to provide evidence
for the existence and function of neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques. Here I show that …

The trend in industrial/service robotics is to develop robots that can cooperate with people,
interacting with them in an autonomous, safe and purposive way. These are the fundamental …

The extent to which normative cognition varies across cultures has implications for a number
of important philosophical questions. This chapter examines several striking commonalities …

A humanoid robot is a particular form of embodied agent. The form that an agent takes has a
major impact on how that agent interacts with its environment and how it develops an …

Adaptive neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to reorganize neural connectivity in
response to experience. It is potentially more efficient during early development, allowing …

Parent-infant social interactions start early in development, with infants showing active
communicative expressions by just two months. A key question is how this social capacity …