"3343","A Developmental Approach for low-level Imitations","Historically, a lot of authors in psychology and in robotics tend to separate \"true imitation\" and its related high-level mechanisms which seem to be exclusive to human adult, from low-level imitations or \"mimicries\" observed on babies or primates. Closely, classical researches suppose that an imitative artificial system must be able to build a model of the demonstrator's geometry, in order to reproduce finely the movements on each joints. Conversely, we will advocate that if imitation is viewed as a part of a developmental course, then (1) an artificial developing system does not need to build any internal model of the other, to perform real-time and low-level imitations of human movements despite the related correspondence problem between man and robot and, (2) a simple sensory-motor loop could be at the basis of multiples heterogeneous imitative behaviors often explained in the literature by different models.","http://cogprints.org/3343/","Andry, Pierre and Gaussier, Philippe and Nadel, Jacqueline and Courant, Michele","Prince, Christopher G. and Berthouze, Luc and Kozima, Hideki and Bullock, Daniel and Stojanov, Georgi and Balkenius, Christian","       <span class=\"person_name\">Andry, Pierre</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Gaussier, Philippe</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Nadel, Jacqueline</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Courant, Michele</span>     (2003)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/3343/\"><em>A Developmental Approach for low-level Imitations.</em></a>       [Conference Poster]           ","","2003"