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Through social learning the experience of an agent is governed by the actions of an expert, and the structures that develop within the agent's \u201cbrain\u201d are influenced by its social situatedness. We are inspired from biological findings in primates of the existence of mirror neurons, which are believed to be involved in imitation. The visual and motor properties of these neurons suggest a tight perception\u2013action coupling, where affordances could be expressed. Our system is designed to model the functional properties of the mirror neurons and therefore express the functionality of objects. The system builds up perceptual and motoric structures from experience using temporal attention and forms perceptual-motor connections. The experience arises through imitation, where an agent can perceive objects and the interactions upon them. We have successfully applied our system on three different platforms, two in simulation and the third on a real robot learning from a human. The system is able to segment the perceptual\u2013motor experience into distinct structures that can be used to recognize and reproduce the task in each experiment. 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