Imitation as behaviour parsing

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1431, 2003, Pages 529-536

  Byrne, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Great apes; Hierarchical organization; Intentionality; Segmentation; Statistical regularities

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; IMITATION; PRIMATE;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037471790     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1219     Document Type: Article

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