• DOI:10.1098/RSTB.2002.1219
Corpus ID: 35781918

Imitation as behaviour parsing.

@article{Byrne2003ImitationAB,
  title={Imitation as behaviour parsing.},
  author={R. Byrne},
  journal={Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences},
  year={2003},
  volume={358 1431},
  pages={
          529-36
        }
}

• R. Byrne
• Published 2003
• Medicine
• Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

Non-human great apes appear to be able to acquire elaborate skills partly by imitation, raising the possibility of the transfer of skill by imitation in animals that have only rudimentary mentalizing capacities: in contrast to the frequent assumption that imitation depends on prior understanding of others' intentions. Attempts to understand the apes' behaviour have led to the development of a purely mechanistic model of imitation, the 'behaviour parsing' model, in which the statistical… Expand

View on PubMed

europepmc.org

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed