Towards a Mirror System for the Development of Socially-Mediated Skills
Abstract
We present a system that attempts to model the functional role of
mirror neurons, namely the activation of structures in response to
both the observation of a demonstrated task, and its generation.
Through social situatedness and a set of innate skills, perceptual
and motor structures develop for recognition and reproduction of
demonstrated actions. We believe this is an implementation towards
a mirror system, and we test it on two platforms, one in simulation
involving imitation of object interactions, the second on a physical
robot learning from a human to follow walls.
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