Imitation and social learning in robots humans and animals : behavioural social and communicative dimensions Introduction : the constructive interdisciplinary viewpoint for understanding mechanisms and models of imitation and social learning Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Kerstin Dautenhahn Correspondence problem and mechanisms Imitation : thoughts about theories Geoffrey Bird and Cecilia Heyes Nine billion correspondence problems Chrystopher L. Nehaniv Challenges and issues faced in building a framework for conducting research in learning from observation Darrin Bentivegna Christopher Akteson and Gordon Cheng Mirroring and mind reading A neural architecture for imitation and intentional relations Marco Iacoboni Jonas Kaplan and Stephen Wilson Simulation theory of understanding others : a robotics perspective Yiannis Demiris and Matthew Johnson Mirrors and matchings : imitation from the perspective of mirror self recognition and the parietal regions involvement in both Robert W. Mitchell What to imitate The question of what to imitate : inferring goals and intentions from demonstrations Malinda Carpenter and Josep Call Learning of gestures by imitation in a humanoid robot Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard The dynamic emergence of categories through imitation Tony Belpaeme Bart de Boer and Bart Jansen Development and embodiment Copying strategies by people with autistic spectrum disorder : why only imitation leads to social cognitive development Justin H. G. Williams A bayesian model of imitation in infants and robots Rajesh P. N. Rao Aaron P. Shon and Andrew N. Meltzoff Solving the correspondence problem in robotic imitation across embodiments : synchrony perception and culture in artifacts Aris Alissandrakis Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Kerstin Dautenhahn Synchrony and turn taking as communicative mechanisms How to build an imitator Arnaud Revel and Jacqueline Nadel Simulated turn taking and development of styles of motion Takashi Ikegami and Hiroki Iizuka Bullying behaviour empathy and imitation : an attempted synthesis Kerstin Dautenhahn Sarah N. Woods and Christina Kaouri Why imitate motivations Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy Mark Nielsen and Virginia Slaughter The progress drive hypothesis : an interpretation of early imitation Frederic Kaplan and Pierre Yves Oudeyer Social feedback Training behavior by imitation : from parrots to people ... to robots Irene M. Pepperberg and Diane V. Sherman Task learning through imitation and human robot interaction Monica N. Nicolescu and Maja J. Mataric The ecological context Emulation learning : the integration of technical and social cognition Ludwig Huber Mimicry as deceptive resemblance : beyond the one trick ponies Mark D. Norman and Tom Tregenza