This paper addresses the problems of what to imitate and how to imitate in simple uni and bi-
manual manipulatory tasks. To solve the what to imitate issue, we use a probabilistic …

T he chapters in this edited volume address two questions central to discussions of the
emerging spatial mind: what changes in spatial cognition occur over development, and how …

How does the spatial mind develop? In this book, Jodie Plumert and John Spencer bring
together the leading researchers from the field of spatial cognitive development to examine …

By frame of reference transformations, an input variable in one coordinate system is
transformed into an output variable in a different coordinate system depending on another …

Although the human mirror neuron system (MNS) is critical for action observation and
imitation, most MNS investigations overlook the visuospatial transformation processes that …

A fundamental challenge in robotics today is building robots that can learn new skills by
observing humans and imitating human actions. We propose a new Bayesian approach to …

Humans' capacity to imitate has been extensively investigated through a wide-range of
behavioral and developmental studies. Yet, despite the huge amount of phenomenological …

We describe a hybrid generative and predictive model of the motor cortex. The generative
model is related to the hierarchically directed cortico-cortical (or thalamo-cortical) …

This work follows from a research project, in which we investigate the underlying
mechanisms of human imitation and develop a neural model of its core neural circuits. The …

The aim of the present volume is to enrich human language dimensions by seeking to
understand how the use of language may be situated with respect to other systems for action …