Imitative Mind (eBook, PDF)

Development, Evolution and Brain Bases
Redaktion: Meltzoff, Andrew N.

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Produktbeschreibung

Imitation guides the behaviour of a range of species. Scientific advances in the study of imitation at multiple levels from neurons to behaviour have far-reaching implications for cognitive science, neuroscience, and evolutionary and developmental psychology. This volume, first published in 2002, provides a summary of the research on imitation in both Europe and America, including work on infants, adults, and nonhuman primates, with speculations about robotics. A special feature of the book is that it provides a concrete instance of the links between developmental psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. It showcases how an interdisciplinary approach to imitation can illuminate long-standing problems in the brain sciences, including consciousness, self, perception-action coding, theory of mind, and intersubjectivity. The book addresses what it means to be human and how we get that way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511057458
• Artikelnr.: 38209344

Autorenporträt

Andrew N. Meltzoff studied psychology at Harvard and Oxford (D. Phil. 1976). He has been a full professor at the University of Washington since 1988. In 2000 he was named Director of the UW Center for Mind, Brain and Learning. Meltzoff is the recipient of a National Institute of Health Merit Award for outstanding research. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and a foreign member of the Norwegian National Academy of Science and Letters. He is the co-author of Words, Thoughts and Theories (1997) and The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us about the Mind (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. An interdisciplinary introduction to
the imitative mind and brain Wolfgang Prinz and Andrew N. Meltzoff; Part
II. Developmental and Evolutionary Approaches to Imitation: 2. Building
blocks for a developmental theory of imitation Andrew N. Meltzoff; 3.
Imitation and imitation recognition: functional use in preverbal infants
and nonverbal children with autism Jacqueline Nadel; 4. Self-awareness,
other-awareness, and secondary representation Jens B. Asendorpf; 5. Notes
on individual differences and the assumed elusiveness of neonatal imitation
Mikael Heimann; 6. Ego function of early imitation Philippe Rochat; 7. The
imitator's representation of the imitated: ape and child A. Whiten; 8.
Seeing actions as hierarchically organised structures: great ape manual
skills Richard W. Byrne; Part III. Cognitive Approaches to Imitation, Body
Scheme, and Perception-action Coding: 9. Experimental approaches to
imitation Wolfgang Prinz; 10. Imitation: common mechanisms in the
observation and execution of finger and mouth movements Harold Bekkering;
11. Goal-directed imitation Merideth Gattis, Harold Bekkering and Andreas
Wolschläger; 12. Visuomotor couplings in object-orientated and imitative
actions Stefan Vogt; 13. On bodies and events Barbara Tversky, Julie Bauer
Morrison and Jeff Zacks; 14. What is the body schema? Catherine L. Reed;
Part IV. Neuroscience Underpinnings of Imitation and Apraxia: 15. From
mirror neurons to imitation: facts and speculations Giacomo Rizzolatti,
Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallese; 16. Cell populations
in the banks of the superior temporal sulcus of the macaque and imitation
T. Jellema, C. I. Baker, M. W. Oram and D. I. Perrett; 17. Is there such a
thing as a functional equivalence between imagined, observed, and executed
action? Jean Decety; 18. The role of imitation in body ownership and mental
growth Marcel Kinsbourne; 19. Imitation, apraxia, and hemisphere dominance
Georg Goldenberg and Joachim Hermsdörfer.