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Javitch, Daniel. "The Imitation of Imitations in Orlando Furioso." Renaissance Quarterly 38, no. 2 (1985): 215–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2861663.

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Recent commentary on poetic imitation in the Renaissance has tended to emphasize competition, to value kinds of imitation that strive to surpass their models, and therefore to disregard or even deprecate modes of imitation that seem to consist of little more than respectful duplications. It has too readily assumed that imitative poets can only achieve originality by defying or somehow asserting their difference from their models. In the following essay I seek to challenge such assumptions by examining the practice of a major Renaissance poet who managed to assert his modern voice through imitatio while refusing to engage in competitive struggle. I do not mean to suggest that Renaissance poets were not given to competitive imitation. For purposes of subsequent contrast it is worth considering rapidly why emulation frequently did characterize the imitative practice of some of these poets.

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Bourkha, Bilal, and Younes Belfellah. "Inter-organizational imitation: Definition and typology." Accounting and Financial Control 1, no. 1 (April 19, 2017): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/afc.01(1).2017.03.

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The sustained idea of this article is that the concept of imitation has not been sufficiently developed in the field of strategic management and has often been confused with the notion of mimicry. Therefore, the objective of this research is to emphasize the distinction between different types of imitation unlike a lot of research on companies imitative behavior focused on one type as the perfect imitation. This will clarify ambiguities in the literature on imitation, and show that the mobilization of neo institutional theory is not sufficient to explain all the imitative behavior of organizations in a market.

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Wohlschläger, Andreas, Merideth Gattis, and Harold Bekkering. "Action generation and action perception in imitation: an instance of the ideomotor principle." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 358, no. 1431 (February 24, 2003): 501–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2002.1257.

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We review a series of behavioural experiments on imitation in children and adults that test the predictions of a new theory of imitation. Most of the recent theories of imitation assume a direct visual–to–motor mapping between perceived and imitated movements. Based on our findings of systematic errors in imitation, the new theory of goal–directed imitation (GOADI) instead assumes that imitation is guided by cognitively specified goals. According to GOADI, the imitator does not imitate the observed movement as a whole, but rather decomposes it into its separate aspects. These aspects are hierarchically ordered, and the highest aspect becomes the imitator's main goal. Other aspects become sub–goals. In accordance with the ideomotor principle, the main goal activates the motor programme that is most strongly associated with the achievement of that goal. When executed, this motor programme sometimes matches, and sometimes does not, the model's movement. However, the main goal extracted from the model movement is almost always imitated correctly.

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Aczel, Balazs, Bence Bago, and Andrei Foldes. "Is there evidence for automatic imitation in a strategic context?" Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1741 (May 2, 2012): 3231–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0500.

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Over the past decade, a compelling number of studies reported that observing an action makes the imitation of that action more likely. The automatic character of human imitative behaviour was often claimed, but rarely tested. The demonstration of the absence of conscious control has been attempted in a recent report claiming that imitation can occur in the rock–paper–scissors (RPS) game, where strategic players should avoid imitating their opponents. This surprising result could serve as strong evidence that humans imitate each other unconsciously. We find, however, that this conclusion is problematic. In addition to reviewing the original methods, in this work, we also replicated the experiment with double the sample size. Thorough examination of the original analyses and the results of the present replication do not support the original conclusion. In our view, testing the theory of automatic imitation in RPS games is a potentially promising avenue of exploration, yet the interpretation of the data requires further understanding of the subsidiary effects controlling the behaviour of the players.

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YAMAMOTO, RYUICHI. "WHAT CAUSES PERSISTENCE OF STOCK RETURN VOLATILITY? ONE POSSIBLE EXPLANATION WITH AN ARTIFICIAL STOCK MARKET." New Mathematics and Natural Computation 02, no. 03 (November 2006): 261–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793005706000555.

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This paper explores a possible cause of persistence in stock return volatility. Artificial stock markets are examined with different learning mechanisms, i.e. imitative and experiential learning. The simulation result shows that an economy with imitative learning gives rise to persistence of return volatility while an experiential learning economy does not. We find that volatility becomes persistent as investors learn through imitating the prediction methods of others. Imitation is crucial to producing the persistence in stock return volatility.

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Guijarro Lasheras, Rodrigo. "Graphic analogies in the imitation of music in literature." Semiotica 2020, no. 236-237 (December 16, 2020): 103–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2017-0107.

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AbstractMusic may have a strong influence on literature. Many novels have reflected this by thematizing music in many different ways. However, this engagement can also adopt the form of an imitation or a formal presence that does not actually require the text to say anything about music. This paper aims to explore some aspects of musical imitation in literature that have not been analyzed in depth. Departing from the approach developed by Werner Wolf, I propose a distinction between imitating and imitated elements that applies to any case of study. Furthermore, at the core of this article, I advocate for a fourth dimension that the imitation of music in literature may have and that should be added to word music, formal and structural analogies, and imaginary content analogies. I call this fourth category “graphic analogies.” It implies an imitation whose imitating element is the graphic, written aspect of the linguistic signifier. Finally, this leads to the idea that, in the case of the imitation of music in literature, there is not a necessary correlation between imitating and imitated elements.

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Apesteguia, Jose, Steffen Huck, and Jörg Oechssler. "Imitation—theory and experimental evidence." Journal of Economic Theory 136, no. 1 (September 2007): 217–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2006.07.006.

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Cook, Richard, Geoffrey Bird, Gabriele Lünser, Steffen Huck, and Cecilia Heyes. "Automatic imitation in a strategic context: players of rock–paper–scissors imitate opponents' gestures." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1729 (July 20, 2011): 780–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1024.

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A compelling body of evidence indicates that observing a task-irrelevant action makes the execution of that action more likely. However, it remains unclear whether this ‘automatic imitation’ effect is indeed automatic or whether the imitative action is voluntary. The present study tested the automaticity of automatic imitation by asking whether it occurs in a strategic context where it reduces payoffs. Participants were required to play rock–paper–scissors, with the aim of achieving as many wins as possible, while either one or both players were blindfolded. While the frequency of draws in the blind–blind condition was precisely that expected at chance, the frequency of draws in the blind–sighted condition was significantly elevated. Specifically, the execution of either a rock or scissors gesture by the blind player was predictive of an imitative response by the sighted player. That automatic imitation emerges in a context where imitation reduces payoffs accords with its ‘automatic’ description, and implies that these effects are more akin to involuntary than to voluntary actions. These data represent the first evidence of automatic imitation in a strategic context, and challenge the abstraction from physical aspects of social interaction typical in economic and game theory.

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Pan, Yunpeng, Ching-An Cheng, Kamil Saigol, Keuntaek Lee, Xinyan Yan, Evangelos A. Theodorou, and Byron Boots. "Imitation learning for agile autonomous driving." International Journal of Robotics Research 39, no. 2-3 (October 14, 2019): 286–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0278364919880273.

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We present an end-to-end imitation learning system for agile, off-road autonomous driving using only low-cost on-board sensors. By imitating a model predictive controller equipped with advanced sensors, we train a deep neural network control policy to map raw, high-dimensional observations to continuous steering and throttle commands. Compared with recent approaches to similar tasks, our method requires neither state estimation nor on-the-fly planning to navigate the vehicle. Our approach relies on, and experimentally validates, recent imitation learning theory. Empirically, we show that policies trained with online imitation learning overcome well-known challenges related to covariate shift and generalize better than policies trained with batch imitation learning. Built on these insights, our autonomous driving system demonstrates successful high-speed off-road driving, matching the state-of-the-art performance.

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Sacheli, L. M., C. Verga, E. Arcangeli, G. Banfi, M. Tettamanti, and E. Paulesu. "How Task Interactivity Shapes Action Observation." Cerebral Cortex 29, no. 12 (October 7, 2019): 5302–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhz205.

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Abstract Action observation triggers imitation, a powerful mechanism permitting interpersonal coordination. Coordination, however, also occurs when the partners’ actions are nonimitative and physically incongruent. One influential theory postulates that this is achieved via top-down modulation of imitation exerted by prefrontal regions. Here, we rather argue that coordination depends on sharing a goal with the interacting partner: this shapes action observation, overriding involuntary imitation, through the predictive activity of the left ventral premotor cortex (lvPMc). During functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), participants played music in turn with a virtual partner in interactive and noninteractive conditions requiring 50% of imitative/nonimitative responses. In a full-factorial design, both perceptual features and low-level motor requirements were kept constant throughout the experiment. Behaviorally, the interactive context minimized visuomotor interference due to the involuntary imitation of physically incongruent movements. This was paralleled by modulation of neural activity in the lvPMc, which was specifically recruited during the interactive task independently of the imitative/nonimitative nature of the social exchange. This lvPMc activity reflected the predictive decoding of the partner’s actions, as revealed by multivariate pattern analysis. This demonstrates that, during interactions, we process our partners’ behavior to prospectively infer their contribution to the shared goal achievement, generating motor predictions for cooperation beyond low-level imitation.

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KAWAUCHI, AKIO. "TOPOLOGICAL IMITATION, MUTATION AND THE QUANTUM SU(2) INVARIANTS." Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications 03, no. 01 (March 1994): 25–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218216594000058.

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It is proved that any two mutative closed oriented 3-manifolds have the same quantum SU(2) invariant. By a constructive argument of topological imitation, we construct finitely many mutative hyperbolic imitations of any given closed oriented 3-manifold with certain arbitrariness of isometry groups whose quantum SU(2) invariants are close to the original one.

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Meltzoff, Andrew N., and Jean Decety. "What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 358, no. 1431 (February 14, 2003): 491–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2002.1261.

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Both developmental and neurophysiological research suggest a common coding between perceived and generated actions. This shared representational network is innately wired in humans. We review psychological evidence concerning the imitative behaviour of newborn human infants. We suggest that the mechanisms involved in infant imitation provide the foundation for understanding that others are ‘like me’ and underlie the development of theory of mind and empathy for others. We also analyse functional neuroimaging studies that explore the neurophysiological substrate of imitation in adults. We marshal evidence that imitation recruits not only shared neural representations between the self and the other but also cortical regions in the parietal cortex that are crucial for distinguishing between the perspective of self and other. Imitation is doubly revealing: it is used by infants to learn about adults, and by scientists to understand the organization and functioning of the brain.

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Mclnerny, Ralph M. "On Imitation." Renascence 37, no. 3 (1985): 190–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/renascence198537321.

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Ammonides, Alexandra Papaditsas, and Kent Johnson. "On Imitation." Chicago Review 48, no. 4 (2002): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25305012.

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Neuman, Justin. "Imitation Games." Novel 49, no. 1 (May 2016): 166–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-3458389.

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Blankenship, J. David. "Education and the Arts in Plato's Republic." Journal of Education 178, no. 3 (October 1996): 67–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002205749617800306.

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The education in ‘music’ described in Books II-III of the Republic combines the content and the manner of presentation of stories so that moral substance and formal beauty work together to inculcate the opinions and virtues required in the children who are to become guardians of the ideal city. The principles which underlie this section constitute a theory of the role of the arts in moral education that can be applied in others contexts. Plato's view of how such education works depends upon his view of the way in which imitation affects the soul, and can be understood thoroughly only after the parts of the soul have been distinguished and the epistemological and ontological groundwork has been laid for a full discussion of imitation. These requirements having been met in the course of Books IV through IX, Plato returns to imitation in Book X, using painting as a foil to mount ontological, epistemological, and psychological criticisms of imitative poetry, now focussing upon its effect on adults, not children. His attack tacitly exempts the kind of imitations exemplified by Socrates' own frequent image making and by the philosophical poetry of the Republic itself. Socrates imagines, but rejects, a certain defense of popular poetry, the very one which Aristotle developed in his doctrine of ‘catharsis.’ But that defense rests upon views of practical knowledge and of the psychological resources of the average person that Plato would be unlikely to have accepted.

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Blankenship, J. David. "Education and the Arts in Plato's Republic." Journal of Education 179, no. 3 (October 1997): 67–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002205749717900306.

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The education in ‘music’ described in Books II-III of the Republic combines the content and the manner of presentation of stories so that moral substance and formal beauty work together to inculcate the opinions and virtues required in the children who are to become guardians of the ideal city. The principles which underlie this section constitute a theory of the role of the arts in moral education that can be applied in others contexts. Plato's view of how such education works depends upon his view of the way in which imitation affects the soul, and can be understood thoroughly only after the parts of the soul have been distinguished and the epistemological and ontological groundwork has been laid for a full discussion of imitation. These requirements having been met in the course of Books IV through IX, Plato returns to imitation in Book X, using painting as a foil to mount ontological, epistemological, and psychological criticisms of imitative poetry, now focussing upon its effect on adults, not children. His attack tacitly exempts the kind of imitations exemplified by Socrates' own frequent image making and by the philosophical poetry of the Republic itself. Socrates imagines, but rejects, a certain defense of popular poetry, the very one which Aristotle developed in his doctrine of ‘catharsis.’ But that defense rests upon views of practical knowledge and of the psychological resources of the average person that Plato would be unlikely to have accepted.

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Charman, Tony, and Simon Baron-Cohen. "Another look at imitation in autism." Development and Psychopathology 6, no. 3 (1994): 403–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579400006015.

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AbstractSeveral authors have recently suggested that imitation may be a developmental “precursor” of a theory of mind and have linked impaired imitation in children with autism to their failure to develop a theory of mind. The present study investigated early-emerging procedural and gestural imitation abilities in children with autism. Children with autism were found to have intact basic-level gestural and procedural imitation. We discuss these results in terms of their relation to a specific developmental delay hypothesis of autism and re-assess the status of imitation as a developmental precursor of a theory of mind.

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Oh, Won-Yong, and Vincent L. Barker. "Not All Ties Are Equal: CEO Outside Directorships and Strategic Imitation in R&D Investment." Journal of Management 44, no. 4 (November 13, 2015): 1312–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206315614371.

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Prior research has identified two different sources of strategic imitation—through perceived organizational cluster similarity (cluster effects) and direct social connections (tied-to effects). In the research on tied-to effects, top executives’ social ties, such as outside directorships, have long been studied as a mechanism through which strategic imitation develops. However, are all ties the same? There has been little examination of whether some social ties have more influence than others. Using the attention-based view of the firm, we argue that certain social ties garner more attention by being salient to top executives. We empirically test this assertion by examining the effects of CEO outside directorships on R&D spending. Using panel data from large U.S. manufacturing firms, we find that CEOs imitate the R&D intensity of tied-to firms (i.e., a firm in which the CEO serves as an outside board member) in their own firm’s R&D decisions. Consistent with attention-based arguments, our results show evidence of selective imitation, as imitating relationships are stronger when the CEO has longer tenure as a director of a tied-to firm and the tied-to firm is performing well. In contrast to conventional institutional theory, our findings also show that CEOs imitate relatively smaller tied-to firms when they make R&D investment decisions. Not all social ties have equal influence on imitative strategic decision making; thus, they have different strategic implications.

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Dolven, Jeff. "Critique and Imitation." English Language Notes 51, no. 2 (September 1, 2013): 123–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-51.2.123.

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Pavel, T. "Fiction and Imitation." Poetics Today 21, no. 3 (September 1, 2000): 521–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-3-521.

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Приходько, И. М. "Theory of Imitation in a Historical Context." OPERA MUSICOLOGICA, no. 5 (December 31, 2020): 8–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.26156/om.2020.12.5.001.

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Теория имитации создавалась Танеевым в определенном историческом контексте и опиралась на методологические принципы современного ему гуманитарного знания. Со времени публикации «Учения о каноне» прошло почти сто лет, на протяжении которых идеи Танеева остаются незыблемым фундаментом отечественной теории имитации. Однако методология гуманитарного знания претерпела существенные изменения. Оно уже не оперирует «вечными формами», поскольку понятно, что в культуре нет ничего похожего на физические константы. Действие универсальных принципов музыкальной организации опосредовано историческими условиями. Имитация реализует универсальный принцип повторения в разных исторических формах. Первоначально имитация была орнаментальной, изредка вплетаясь в полифоническую ткань. Канон же был широко распространенной техникой письма. Затем имитация примерно на полтора века стала ведущим фактором формообразования и сблизилась с каноном. Позднее, одновременно с возрастанием роли подвижного контрапункта, значение имитации вновь уменьшилось. Менялся и мелодический синтаксис. В период расцвета имитационной техники мелодическая линия развертывалась непрерывно, цезуры были малозаметными и распределялись неравномерно. Под влиянием изменений метроритмической организации в мелодиях появились более глубокие регулярные цезуры. Это позволяет при анализе имитационной полифонии эпохи барокко членить мелодию на отделы, однако при анализе полифонии строгого письма такое членение представляется искусственным. Современная методология требует обозначить границы, за которыми теория утрачивает объяснительные возможности. Отсюда вытекает необходимость переосмыслить некоторые положения танеевской теории. The theory of imitation was created by Sergey I. Taneyev in a certain historical context and was based on the methodological principles of contemporaneous humanities. Almost a hundred years have passed since the publication of “The Teaching on The Canon”, and throughout this time, Taneyev’s ideas remain the unshakable foundation of the domestic theory of imitation. However, the methodology of the humanities has undergone significant changes — particularly in the aspect of the relationship between theoretical and historical knowledge. Also, analysis and description prevail over prescriptions in present-day musicology. Therefore it is reasonable to reconsider some aspects of Taneyev’s theory. Modern musicologists understand that music does not have anything like fundamental and unchangeable physical constants. Accordingly, there are no “eternal forms” in music. There are some general principles of musical organization, similar to linguistic universals, but they are implemented in multiple ways on different levels under different historical/ stylistic conditions. The principle of repetition is realized through transmission of a melodic phrase from one voice part to another — that is, through imitation. Forms of imitation depend on how melodic phrases are built — that is, on the features of the melodic syntax. In the vocal polyphony of the 16th century, the flow of the melody is uninterrupted; caesuras are irregular and shallow, whereas in the instrumental polyphony of the 18th century they divide melody into commensurable sections. This difference affects the way in which imitation is used in these styles.

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Péri, Benedek. "Yavuz Sultan Selïm (1512-1520) and his imitation strategies." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 73, no. 2 (June 2020): 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/062.2020.00010.

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AbstractUnlike his Ottoman contemporaries, Yavuz Sultan Selïm composed his poems almost exclusively in Persian. A great part of his poetic output consists of poetic replies inspired by the classics of the Persian poetic canon as it was perceived by Ottomans. Through an in depth analysis of four imitation poems inspired by four ghazals by Häfiẓ the present paper aims at highlighting the poetic strategies Selïm used when he composed poetic imitations.

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Rossano, Matt J. "Cognitive Fluidity and Acheulean Over-imitation." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27, no. 3 (April 4, 2017): 495–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774317000208.

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This paper analyses recently discussed evidence of over-imitation in Acheulean biface construction. First, it evaluates the argument for over-imitation using the available archaeological and cognitive science evidence. Next, it applies the four major theories of over-imitation, (1) Copy and Correct (C&C), (2) Automatic Causal Encoding (ACE), (3) social affiliation and (4) normative theory, as potential explanations for Acheulean over-imitation. ACE theory is the most likely explanation for early biface over-imitation (before 500,000 years bp), with social affiliation becoming increasingly likely after that. Normative over-imitation probably did not occur until around 300,000 years bp, when both the necessary hominin cognitive capacities and social conditions were present. An important conclusion emerging from this analysis is that over-imitation requires an integration of social and technical intelligence. Thus, the origins of cognitive fluidity may date back to as early as a million years ago, well before material evidence of fluidity is present.

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Cestari, Luiz Artur dos Santos. "GABRIEL TARDE AND THE CIRCULATING OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BELIEF IN BRAZILIAN EDUCATIONAL FIELD." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 8, no. 2 (February 1, 2020): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss2.2166.

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This work is not only an outline of Tarde’s theory of imitation; furthermore, its objective is to present an understanding of the circulating ideas based on the appropriation of autobiographies in the educational field in Brazil. At first, it will give a comprehension of Gabriel Tarde’s sociology of imitation, showing that under the imitations the belief and desire are the substance and force that will find at profound of all sensorial qualities where they combine and involve all social life. Second, it will study the appropriation of the autobiographical idea under the Research/Formation Movement, and it wants to show the assimilation of the autobiographical belief in papers published at yearbooks of the CIPA (International Conferences of Autobiographical Research). Then, it will affirm the importance of Gabriel Tarde’s thought to understand the circulating ideas.

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Wu, Jie, Xinhe Zhang, Shuaihe Zhuo, Martin Meyer, Bin Li, and Haifeng Yan. "The imitation-innovation link, external knowledge search and China's innovation system." Journal of Intellectual Capital 21, no. 5 (May 24, 2020): 727–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jic-05-2019-0092.

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PurposeThe authors attempt to answer the basic questions: How is imitation tied to innovation? This question is addressed in the context of China's innovation system in the 2000s where Chinese industrial firms simultaneously implement innovation and imitation strategies in their new product developments.Design/methodology/approachThe authors first build on lattice theory and supermodularity theory to provide a rigorous and careful mathematical proof. The authors further conduct the empirical analyses using an original data on Chinese manufacturing firms' innovation and imitation strategies in the development of new products in 2002.FindingsThis article reveals the complementarity relation between imitation and innovation strategies and identifies external knowledge search as the boundary condition that influences the extent to which two strategies reinforce each other.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of the imitation-innovation complementarity suggest that imitation is not only an indispensable strategy independent of innovation, but also is vital to the effectiveness of innovation itself.Practical implicationsThe imitation-innovation complementarity finding provides some evidence for the contention that Chinese latecomers exploit the synergies of imitation and innovation, transforming themselves from imitators to innovators and vibrant competitors in the global market (Wu et al., 2016) and, as a result, national innovation system has evolved from a state-sponsored imitation program to the imitation-innovation mixture.Originality/valueIn contrast to earlier innovation studies in which innovation and imitation are unrelated, this study reveals that imitation complements innovation, and the extent of Chinese firms' external knowledge search affects the complementary relationship between imitation and innovation. These findings add important insights to the innovation management literature and contribute empirical evidence to the interplay of innovation and imitation enhancing national innovation system.

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Raser, Timothy. "The Fallacies of Imitation." SubStance 14, no. 1 (1985): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3684955.

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Hayne, Harlene. "Out of the mouths of babes: A hierarchical view of imitation by human infants." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21, no. 5 (October 1998): 692–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x98311747.

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Byrne & Russon have argued that imitation is not an all-or-none phenomenon but may instead occur at different levels. Although I applaud their theoretical framework, their data provide little empirical support for the theory. Data from studies of human infants, however, are consistent with the view that imitation may occur at different levels. These data may provide better support for Byrne & Russon's hierarchical view of imitation than the nonhuman primate data that their theory was developed to explain.

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Song, Zhi-hong. "Organizational learning, absorptive capacity, imitation and innovation." Chinese Management Studies 9, no. 1 (April 7, 2015): 97–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cms-05-2014-0092.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships among organizational learning, absorptive capacity, imitation and innovation in the Chinese context. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the organizational learning theory and innovation theory, the paper presents a framework linking organizational learning, absorptive capacity, imitation and innovation. Using a key informant technique, a survey questionnaire was designed and sent to the middle or top management managers of 115 firms located in Peking, People’s Republic (PR) of China. Structural equation modeling (SEM) with the maximum likelihood (ML) estimation procedures was applied to test the hypotheses developed in the research. Findings – The empirical results show that both organizational learning and absorptive capacity have positive impacts on innovation; imitation has a positive impact on absorptive capacity; absorptive capacity mediates the relationship between imitation and innovation. Practical implications – This study has implications for firms aiming to enhance innovation by organizational learning, absorptive capacity and imitation. Originality/value – Despite the number of studies concerning organizational learning, absorptive capacity, imitation and innovation, research that encompasses the interrelationships between the four concepts simultaneously remains scarce. The paper provides a framework linking organizational learning, imitation, absorptive capacity and innovation, and it advances the argument that absorptive capacity is an important factor in predicting the Chinese firms’ transition from imitation to innovation.

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Gillespie, Stuart. "Imitating the Obscene: Henry Higden's Versions of Horace's Satire 1.2 and Juvenal's Satire 6." Translation and Literature 29, no. 2 (July 2020): 199–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2020.0418.

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Henry Higden has hitherto been known, if at all, for two works of English classical imitation: of Juvenal's Satire 13 (printed 1686) and Satire 10 (printed 1687), the second an influence on Dryden. Other than a failed stage play, these are Higden's sole recorded works. This article argues that he was also the author of two closely related imitations, probably also composed in the late 1680s but circulated anonymously, and both extant in manuscript copies. Higden's versions tend to make more rather than less emphatic the sexual content of these Latin poems, providing a reason why one who was called to the bar in 1686 and well known in polite circles would not have wished to claim them publicly as his work. A text of the 313-line Horatian imitation is printed for the first time within this contribution.

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Hill, Christopher A. "Thomas Nashe's Imitation Of Christ." Prose Studies 28, no. 2 (August 2006): 211–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440350600784727.

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Conlisk, John, Jyh‐Chyi Gong, and Ching H. Tong. "Dynamics of imitation." Journal of Mathematical Sociology 24, no. 2 (February 2000): 97–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022250x.2000.9990231.

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Nie, Hongyin. "Chinese radicals as distinctive marks of language." Journal of Chinese Writing Systems 3, no. 2 (April 10, 2019): 115–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2513850219839224.

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People of the southern ethnic minorities in China used to create their own scripts by imitating Chinese characters, in which some inherent Chinese radicals are borrowed, which indicate how the characters should be read semantically in their native language rather than in Chinese. This method, unexplainable by traditional Chinese theory, may not be regarded as a valid way of character creation, but proves to be an ignored fact existing in the “Southern Scripts of Chinese Imitation”.

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Frow, John. "An Ethics of Imitation." Angelaki 14, no. 1 (April 2009): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09697250903006484.

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Massen, Cristina, and Wolfgang Prinz. "Movements, actions and tool-use actions: an ideomotor approach to imitation." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364, no. 1528 (August 27, 2009): 2349–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0059.

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In this article we discuss both merits and limitations of the ideomotor approach to action control and action imitation. In the first part, we give a brief outline of ideomotor theory and its functional implications for imitation and related kinds of behaviours. In the subsequent sections, we summarize pertinent experimental studies on action imitation and action induction. These studies show that action perception modulates action planning in a number of ways, of which imitation is but one. In the last part, we move from regular actions to tool-use actions, raising the issue of whether and how watching others' tool-use actions leads to corresponding behaviours in observers. Here, we discuss experiments aimed at dissociating the relative roles of environmental targets, bodily movements and target-to-movement-mappings (action rules) in the observation of tool-use actions. Our findings indicate a strong role for action rules in the observation and imitation of tool-use actions. We argue that, in order to account for these findings, ideomotor theory needs to be extended to take mappings between bodily movements and environmental effects into account.

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Santiesteban, Idalmis, Sarah White, Jennifer Cook, Sam J. Gilbert, Cecilia Heyes, and Geoffrey Bird. "Training social cognition: From imitation to Theory of Mind." Cognition 122, no. 2 (February 2012): 228–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.11.004.

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Feryok, Anne. "Activity theory, imitation and their role in teacher development." Language Teaching Research 13, no. 3 (June 25, 2009): 279–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362168809104699.

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Brown, Julie, and Andrew Whiten. "Imitation, Theory of Mind and Related Activities in Autism." Autism 4, no. 2 (June 2000): 185–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361300004002006.

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O’Connell, Peter A. "Homer and his Legacy in Gregory of Nazianzus’ ‘On his own Affairs’." Journal of Hellenic Studies 139 (September 20, 2019): 147–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0075426919000673.

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AbstractThis paper investigates how Gregory of Nazianzus imitates and responds to the Greek literary tradition in the autobiographical poem ‘On his own affairs’ (2.1.1). Through six case studies, it contributes to the ongoing re-evaluation of Gregory’s literary merit. With learning, wit, subtle humour and faith, Gregory adapts and reinvents earlier poetry to express Christian themes. Imitation is at the heart of his poetic technique, but his imitations are never straight-forward. They include imitating both Homer and other poets’ imitations of Homer, learned word-play and combining references to non-Christian literature and the Septuagint. Gregory’s references add nuance to ‘On his own affairs’ and give pleasure to readers trained to judge poetry by comparing it to earlier poetry, especially the Homeric epics. They also demonstrate the breadth of his scholarship, which extends to Homeric variants, Platonic epigrams and the entirety of the New Testament and Septuagint. Above all, Gregory insists that he is a rightful participant in a living poetic tradition. He writes Greek poetry for the fourth century AD, just as Oppian did in the second century and Apollonius and Callimachus did in the Hellenistic period.

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Barth,, J. Robert. "The Marriage of Imitation and Imagination." Renascence 37, no. 3 (1985): 162–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/renascence198537315.

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Carron, Jean-Claude. "Imitation and Intertexuality in the Renaissance." New Literary History 19, no. 3 (1988): 565. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469089.

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MENGEL, ELIAS F. "Pope's Imitation of Boileau in Arbuthnot." Essays in Criticism XXXVIII, no. 4 (1988): 295–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eic/xxxviii.4.295.

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Mitchell, Robert W., and James R. Anderson. "Primate theory of mind is a Turing test." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21, no. 1 (February 1998): 127–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x98360707.

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Heyes's literature review of deception, imitation, and self-recognition is inadequate, misleading, and erroneous. The anaesthetic artifact hypothesis of self-recognition is unsupported by the data she herself examines. Her proposed experiment is tantalizing, indicating that theory of mind is simply a Turing test.

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DAS, Samir, and Md Mahiuddin SABBIR. "EXPLORING FACTORS AFFECTING CONSUMERSâ€™ INTENTION TOWARD PURCHASING IMITATION JEWELRY: AN EXTENSION OF THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR." TURKISH JOURNAL OF MARKETING 4, no. 3 (December 25, 2019): 221–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.30685/tujom.v4i3.61.

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This study examines the influencing factors those affect Bangladeshi consumersâ€™ attitude and intention towards purchasing imitation jewelry through the conceptual extension of a theoretical model known as Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The authors proposed an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior (ETPB), consisting of seven factors: attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, product knowledge, value consciousness, fashion innovativeness and behavioral intention. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed to measure the impacts of the constructs that were analyzed in the study via AMOS 23. The results of the analysis provided empirical evidence for the hypotheses suggesting that value consciousness is more important than fashion innovativeness in influencing consumer attitude towards purchasing imitation jewelry. Furthermore, attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and product knowledge have significant impact on consumer intention towards purchasing imitation jewelry. Based on what emerged from the analysis, the study has suggested interesting theoretical and managerial implications.

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Hawlin, Stefan. "Epistemes and Imitations: Thom Gunn on Ben Jonson." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 122, no. 5 (October 2007): 1516–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2007.122.5.1516.

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The mode of imitatio enhances the persistence and evolution of genres over time, contrary to the implications of Foucault's concept of epistemes (the idea of discontinuous historical eras). Imitatio, well practiced, awakens extraordinary commonalities of sensibility among poets of different periods (classical, Renaissance, contemporary), including how they understand and manipulate genres, and so raises the possibility of a more unitive view of history, culture, and time. Ben Jonson, with his coherent theoretical view of imitatio, was a crucial poet for Thom Gunn, who self-consciously imitated the mode of imitation, producing in “An Invitation” a re-creation of the country-house poem as embodied by Jonson's “To Sir Robert Wroth” and in “Lament” (his great AIDS elegy) a response to seventeenth-century funeral elegy, in particular Jonson's “Elegie on the Lady Jane Pawlet.”

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Nedzinskaitė, Živilė. "A Quest for Originality in Latin Poetry of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Observed in Manuscripts of the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries." Interlitteraria 23, no. 2 (January 3, 2019): 278–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2018.23.2.6.

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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the time when literature in Latin written by professors and students of Jesuit colleges flourished in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. This trend was the outcome of the Jesuit educational model. The main disciplines in colleges were poetics and rhetoric. The classes of these two disciplines not only aimed at teaching theoretical rules, acquainting the students with the prevailing literary canon, and pointing out the differences between genres, but also encouraged students’ individual creative work, as it was independent writing that was a proof of students’ ability to apply theory in practice. Student writing was strongly influenced by the theory of imitation, which was very popular at the time. Resorting to manuscript material from the colleges of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the article focuses on varying degrees of influence of the imitation theory on students’ individual creative work: it shows the relation between imitation and the literary tradition, the rules of rhetoric, and imitation of canonical authors; it also places emphasis on the quest for individual expression. The author observes that some texts composed by students are on a par with the best poetic works of the well-known poets of that time.

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Palmer, C. Michael. "Instrumental Jazz Improvisation Development." Journal of Research in Music Education 64, no. 3 (August 23, 2016): 360–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022429416664897.

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The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the role aural imitation ability, jazz theory knowledge, and personal background variables play in the development of jazz improvisation achievement. Participants ( N = 70) included 26 high school and 44 college instrumentalists with varying degrees of jazz improvisation experience. Data were collected using four researcher-designed instruments: (a) Participant Improvisation Experience Survey (PIES), (b) Improvisation Achievement Performance Measure (IAPM), (c) Aural Imitation Measure (AIM), and (d) the Jazz Theory Measure (JTM). Results indicate that aural imitation ability and technical facility are fundamental skills supporting jazz improvisation achievement. Other contributing factors include improvisation experience, jazz experience, practicing improvisation, perceived self-confidence, self-assessment, and jazz theory knowledge. Further analysis of results led to improvisation being viewed from a developmental perspective and achievement levels being distinguished on a developmental continuum (i.e., novice, intermediate, advanced) based on performance evaluations within musical categories (i.e., rhythm/time feel, harmony, melody/rhythmic development, style, expressivity, and creativity).

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de Guzman, Marie, Geoffrey Bird, Michael J. Banissy, and Caroline Catmur. "Self–other control processes in social cognition: from imitation to empathy." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371, no. 1686 (January 19, 2016): 20150079. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0079.

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We review the evidence that an ability to achieve a precise balance between representing the self and representing other people is crucial in social interaction. This ability is required for imitation, perspective-taking, theory of mind and empathy; and disruption to this ability may contribute to the symptoms of clinical and sub-clinical conditions, including autism spectrum disorder and mirror-touch synaesthesia. Moving beyond correlational approaches, a recent intervention study demonstrated that training participants to control representations of the self and others improves their ability to control imitative behaviour, and to take another's visual perspective. However, it is unclear whether these effects apply to other areas of social interaction, such as the ability to empathize with others. We report original data showing that participants trained to increase self–other control in the motor domain demonstrated increased empathic corticospinal responses (Experiment 1) and self-reported empathy (Experiment 2), as well as an increased ability to control imitation. These results suggest that the ability to control self and other representations contributes to empathy as well as to other types of social interaction.

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Sasaki, Akihiko, and Osamu Takeuchi. "EFL students’ vocabulary learning in NS-NNS e-mail interactions: Do they learn new words by imitation?" ReCALL 22, no. 1 (January 2010): 70–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958344009990206.

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AbstractThe present study investigated Japanese students’ EFL vocabulary development through e-mail interactions with a native English speaker (NS), with primary focus on students’ imitation of new words. According to sociocultural theory, learners can internalize new linguistic knowledge by imitating an expert’s expressions to create his/her own utterances. This study, therefore, specifically examined whether (1) students could imitate the new vocabulary items provided by the NS tutor, and (2) they could retain these items at the end of the project. An examination of the e-mail log showed that students did imitate and use some of the lexis provided by the NS. The results of the post-test also revealed that some of the imitated words were subsequently retained. However, there were some words that had been learned without imitation. The questionnaire survey and the students’ interview comments indicated that students memorized a considerable number of new words provided by the NS by repeatedly reading them in e-mail text, as well as in other learning contexts, such as regular classes and independent study, through noticing, retrieving, and generating the meaning/form of each word (Nation, 2001). The study concluded that vocabulary learning via e-mail takes place not only by a single process such as imitation, but also by a combination of various processes functioning in an integrated manner.

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Cameron, Rebecca. "Sunny Stalter-Pace. Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance." Modern Drama 64, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 390–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.64.3.br8.

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Imitation Artist is a well-researched biography of a path-breaking performer, choreographer, and producer who elevated imitation to an art form. Stalter-Pace draws valuable connections between Hoffman’s career and popular American theatre and dance from the 1890s to the 1930s, with emphasis on the popularization of European modernism for American vaudeville audiences.

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