Emulation learning: The integration of technical and social cognition

Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 427-440

  Huber, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 84889972292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511489808.029     Document Type: Chapter

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