Sentence examples for human imitation from inspiring English sources

A particularly clear hallmark of human imitation is the copying of behaviour that has no useful function for the imitator: as when right-handed children taught by a left-handed teacher acquire the 'hooked' writing position.

"Every act of creativity is a puny human imitation of grand Creation," Mr. Doctorow said.

This paper evaluates a model of human imitation of abstract, two-arm movements.

Our results indicate that crucial features of human imitation, such as generalization to new actions, may emerge from a connectionist associative network.

It is argued that if this model is correct, then "human imitation is not only a channel, but also a product of cultural inheritance" (Catmur et al. 2009, p. 2376), since imitation not only takes part in cultural inheritance, it is shaped by it as well.

As the forward march of progress has led the world's robots deeper and deeper into the uncanny valley that strange line between accurate human imitation and unsettlingly accurate human imitation we're going to have to decide how we feel about them, and whether or not we even can empathize with robots at all.

The African crake can be attracted to within 10 m (30 ft) of a human by imitation of its kraaa threat call, and the male corn crake by mechanical imitations of their advertising call, including rubbing a piece of wood down a notched stick, or by flicking a credit card against a comb or zip-fastener.

Becoming an adult human requires imitation and role models, it takes patience and practice, and it needs both solitude and community.

Among human beings, imitation can include such everyday experiences as yawning when others yawn, a host of unconsciously and passively learned replications of social conduct, and the deliberate adoption of the ideas and habits of others.

Here, we analyze human speech imitation by a male Asian elephant named Koshik from the Everland Zoo in South Korea, augmenting and extending prior evidence of vocal imitation in elephants [ 17].

Then, too, given the characters' inability to think and feel like fully realized, emotionally responsible humans, their imitation of old-timey mechanical toys turns out to be an apt metaphor.