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Week 1 - Sept 30
Orientation




Week 2 - Oct 7
Comparative Perspectives











Week 3 - Oct 14
Neurological   Correlates







Week 4 - Oct 21
Development I:
  Imitation in
      Infancy









Week 5 - Oct 28
Development II:
  Imitation in
     Apprenticeship



Week 6 - Nov 4
Imitation
    in Robots











Week 7 - Nov 11
Evolution
    of Mimesis







Week 8 - Nov 18
Imitation and
    Prosociality












Week 10 - Dec 2
Imitation in
   Semiotic
     Discourse




Finals - Dec 9
Group's Choice

   Johnson 2015 - The cognitive ecology of dolphin social engagement.
   Tayler & Saayman 1973 - Imitative behavior by Indian Ocean
         bottlenose dolphins.

   Kuczaj & Yeater 2006 - Dolphin imitation: Who, what, when and why?.


Bard & Russel 1999 - Evolutionary foundations of imitation.


Myowa-Yamakoshi & Matsuzawa 2003 - Factors influencing imitation of manipulatory actions in chimpanzees


Whiten & Ham 1992 - On the nature and evolution of imitation in the animal kingdom: reappraisal of a century of research.


Johnson 1993 - Animal communication via coordinated cognitive systems.


Russon & Galdikas 1995 - Constraints on great ape imitation.




Decety & Chaminade 2005 - The neurophysiology of imitation and inter-subjectivity.


Filippi & Woodward 2015 - Mirroring and the ontogeny of social cognition.


Gallese 2005 - "Being like me": Self-other identity, mirror neurons & empathy.





Kugiumutzak 1999 - Genesis and development of early infant mimesis to facial and vocal models.


Charman 2006 - Imitation in the development of language.


Rogers & Williams 2006 - Imitation in autism.


de Barbaro, Johnson & Deak 2013 - Twelve-month "social revolution" emerges from mother-infant sensori-motor coordination.




Fagard, Esseily & Nadel 2006 - Learning through practice versus learning by observation in infants





Rao, Shon & Meltzoff 2004 2015 - A Bayesian model of imitation in infants and robots.


Montessano et al. 2007 - Affordances, development and imitation .


Erbas, Bull & Winfield 2015 - On the evolution of behaviors thru embodied imitation.


Hutchins & Johnson 2009 - Modeling the emergence of language as an embodied collective cognitive activity.




Arbib 2005 - From monkey-like action recognition to human language.


Zlatev 2014 - Bodily mimesis and the transition to speech.


Zlatev et al. 2005 - Bodily mimesis as the "missing link" in human cognitive evolution.




Forgas 2001 - Affect and the social mind.


Lakin & Chartrand 2003 - Using nonconscious behavioral mimicry to create affiliation and rapport.


Paukner et al. 2005 - Macaques (Macaca nemestrina) recognize when they are being imitated.


Haun & Call 2008 - Imitation recognition in great apes.


Call & Carpenter 2009 - Monkeys like mimics.




Nadel 1999 - The evolving nature of imitation as a format for communication.


Trevarthen et al. 1999 - What infants' imitations communicate.


Gibbs 2000 - Meta-representations in staged communicative acts.