Syllabus Required Readings Recommended Readings Home		COGS 260  *   Perspectives on Imitation  *   Fall '16                                  Required Readings 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 Recommended Only (No discussion required)      See Recommended Readings page. Zentall 2002 - Perspectives on observational learning in animals. Whiten et al 2004 - How do apes ape? Byrne 2003 - Imitation as behavior parsing. Pepperberg 2005 - Insights into vocal imitation in African grey parrots Decety 2006 - A cognitive neuroscience view of imitation. Rizzolatti 2005 - The mirror neuron system and imitation Simpson et al. 2015 - Neonatal imitation and its sensorimotor mechanism. Meltzoff 2002 - Imitation as a mechanism of social cognition. Jones 2009 - The development of imitation in infancy. Over & Carpenter 2011 - Putting the social into social learning:    Explaining both selectivity and fidelity in children's copying behaivor. Ray & Heyes 2011 - Imitation in infancy: The wealth of the stimulus. Dennen 2004 - Cognitive apprenticeship in educational practice. Gergely & Csibra 2005 - The social construction of the cultural mind: Imitation learning as a mechanism of human pedagogy. Nicolescu & Mataric 2005 - Task learning through imitation & human-robot interaction Marriott, Parker & Denzinger 2015 - Imitation as a mechanism of cultural transmission. Breazeal et al. 2005 - Learning from and about others: Towards using imitation to bootstrap the social understanding of others by robots. Chersi 2012 - Learning through imitation: A biological approach to robotics. Donald 1993 - Precis of "Origins of the modern mind: 3 stages in the evolution of culture & cognition". Arbib 2013 - Evolving a bridge from praxis to language. Perniss & Vigliocco 2016 - The bridge of iconicity: from a world of experience to the experience of language. Chartrand & Bargh 1999 - The chameleon effect. Van Baaren et al., 2004 - Mimicry and prosocial behavior. Lakin et al. 2008 - I am too just like you: Nonconscious mimicry as an automatic behavioral response to social exclusion. Gueguen et al. 2009 - Mimciry in social interaction: Its effect on human judgment and behavior. Carpenter et al. 2013 - Being mimicked increases prosocial behavior in 18-month-old infants. Paukner et al. 2009 - Capuchin monkeys display affiliation toward humans who imitate them. Nielsen et al. 2005 - Imitation recognition in a captive chimpanzee. Clark 2016 - Depicting as a method of communication. Stec, Huiskes & Redeker 2015 - Multimodal analyses of quotation in oral narratives. Lempert 2014 - Imitation.