Perspectives on Imitation: Imitation, human development, and culture

Perspectives on Imitation: Imitation, human development, and culture
Author: Susan L. Hurley
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2005
Genre: Animal behavior
ISBN: 9780262582513

A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law.

Perspectives on Imitation, Volume 1

Perspectives on Imitation, Volume 1
Author: Susan Hurley
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2005-02-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262582506

A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law. Leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings and theories with reviews of seminal work, and revealing why imitation is a topic of such intense current scientific interest.

An Algorithmic Perspective on Imitation Learning

An Algorithmic Perspective on Imitation Learning
Author: Takayuki Osa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781680834109

Familiarizes machine learning experts with imitation learning, statistical supervised learning theory, and reinforcement learning. It also roboticists and experts in applied artificial intelligence with a broader appreciation for the frameworks and tools available for imitation learning.

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 1

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 1
Author: Philip David Zelazo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1049
Release: 2013-03-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199958459

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of what is now known about psychological development, from birth to biological maturity, and it highlights how cultural, social, cognitive, neural, and molecular processes work together to yield human behavior and changes in human behavior.

Mimesis and Science

Mimesis and Science
Author: Scott R. Garrels
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2011-10-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1609172388

This exciting compendium brings together, for the first time, some of the foremost scholars of René Girard’s mimetic theory, with leading imitation researchers from the cognitive, developmental, and neuro sciences. These chapters explore some of the major discoveries and developments concerning the foundational, yet previously overlooked, role of imitation in human life, revealing the unique theoretical links that can now be made from the neural basis of social interaction to the structure and evolution of human culture and religion. Together, mimetic scholars and imitation researchers are on the cutting edge of some of the most important breakthroughs in understanding the distinctive human capacity for both incredible acts of empathy and compassion as well as mass antipathy and violence. As a result, this interdisciplinary volume promises to help shed light on some of the most pressing and complex questions of our contemporary world.

Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts

Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts
Author: Michael Lucken
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 023154054X

The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic impact on global culture, showing through several twentieth-century masterpieces the generative and regenerative power of Japanese arts. Choosing a representative work from each of four modern genres—painting, film, photography, and animation—Lucken portrays the range of strategies that Japanese artists use to re-present contemporary influences. He examines Kishida Ryusei's portraits of Reiko (1914–1929), Kurosawa Akira's Ikiru (1952), Araki Nobuyoshi's photographic novel Sentimental Journey—Winter (1991), and Miyazaki Hayao's popular anime film Spirited Away (2001), revealing the sophisticated patterns of mimesis that are unique but not exclusive to modern Japanese art. In doing so, Lucken identifies the tensions that drive the Japanese imagination, which are much richer than a simple opposition between progress and tradition, and their reflection of human culture's universal encounter with change. This global perspective explains why, despite its non-Western origins, Japanese art has earned such a vast following.

Imitation Nation

Imitation Nation
Author: Jason Richards
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-12-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813940656

How did early Americans define themselves? The American exceptionalist perspective tells us that the young republic rejected Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in order to isolate a national culture and a white national identity. Imitativeness at this time was often seen as antithetical to self and national creation, but Jason Richards argues that imitation was in fact central to such creation. Imitation Nation shows how whites simultaneously imitated and therefore absorbed the cultures they so readily disavowed, as well as how Indians and blacks emulated the power and privilege of whiteness while they mocked and resisted white authority. By examining the republic’s foundational literature--including works by Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, and Martin Delany--Richards argues that the national desire for cultural uniqueness and racial purity was in constant conflict with the national need to imitate the racial and cultural other for self-definition. The book offers a new model for understanding the ways in which the nation’s identity and literature took shape during the early phases of the American republic.

Imitation in Infancy

Imitation in Infancy
Author: Jacqueline Nadel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521181372

First published in 1999, this book brings together the extensive modern evidence for innate imitation in babies. Modern research has shown imitation to be a natural mechanism of learning and communication which deserves to be at centre stage in developmental psychology. Yet the very possibility of imitation in newborn humans has had a controversial history. Defining imitation has proved to be far from straightforward and scientific evidence for its existence in neonates is only now becoming accepted, despite more than a century of enquiry. In this book, some of the world's foremost researchers on imitation and intellectual development review evidence for imitation in newborn babies. They discuss the development of imitation in infancy, in both normal and atypical populations and in comparison with other primate species, stressing the fundamental importance of imitation in human development, as a foundation of communication and a precursor to symbolic processes.

The Imitative Mind

The Imitative Mind
Author: Andrew N. Meltzoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2002-04-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1139439766

Imitation guides the behaviour of a range of species. Scientific advances in the study of imitation at multiple levels from neurons to behaviour have far-reaching implications for cognitive science, neuroscience, and evolutionary and developmental psychology. This volume, first published in 2002, provides a summary of the research on imitation in both Europe and America, including work on infants, adults, and nonhuman primates, with speculations about robotics. A special feature of the book is that it provides a concrete instance of the links between developmental psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. It showcases how an interdisciplinary approach to imitation can illuminate long-standing problems in the brain sciences, including consciousness, self, perception-action coding, theory of mind, and intersubjectivity. The book addresses what it means to be human and how we get that way.