Is it really imitation? A review of simple mechanisms in social information gathering (1999)
Abstract
Imitation has been of great interest to students of animal social learning, but the power of simpler processes has probably been underestimated. Six classes of simple mechanisms for gaining information from the behaviour of conspecifics are considered: social facilitation, contagious behaviour, stimulus enhancement, observational learning, learning to copy, and cross-modalmatching. Possible examples are given of these processes atwork in the ecological domains of foraging, mating, predator avoidance, and aggression. An argument is made for the utility of evolutionary simulation models as a complement to empirical research on social learning and social information gathering.
Bibliographic entry
Noble, J., & Todd, P. M. (1999). Is it really imitation? A review of simple mechanisms in social information gathering. In K. Dautenhahn & C. Nehaniv (Eds.), Proceedings of the AISB '99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts (pp. 65-73). Sussex, UK: Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior.
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| Publication year | 1999 | |
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| Document type: | In book | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
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