The imitative mind : development, evolution, and brain bases
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The imitative mind : development, evolution, and brain bases
（Cambridge studies in cognitive perceptual development）
Cambridge University Press, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- 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 Wolschlager
- 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 Hermsdoerfer.
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