Imitation: Thoughts about theories

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-34

  Bird, Geoffrey ^a   Heyes, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84927018145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511489808.003     Document Type: Chapter

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