The intersubjective mirror in infant learning and evolution of speech
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The intersubjective mirror in infant learning and evolution of speech
（Advances in consciousness research, v. 76）
John Benjamins, c2009
- : hb
Available at / 12 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Bibliography: p. [309]-336
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech illustrates how recent findings about primary intersubjectivity, participant perception and mirror neurons afford a new understanding of children's nature, dialogue and language.
Based on recent infancy research and the mirror neurons discovery, studies of early speech perception, comparative primate studies and computer simulations of language evolution, this book offers replies to questions as: When and how may spoken language have emerged? How is it that infants so soon after birth become so efficient in their speech perception? What enables 11-month-olds to afford and reciprocate care? What are the steps from infant imitation and simulation of body movements to simulation of mind in conversation partners?
Stein Braten is founder and chair of the Theory Forum network with some of the world's leading infancy, primate and brain researchers who have contributed to his edited volumes for Cambridge University Press (1998) and John Benjamins Publishing Company (2007). (Series B)
Table of Contents
- 1. List of illustrations
- 2. List of tables
- 3. Preface (with acknowledgments)
- 4. Part I. Background for questions and findings inviting a paradigm shift
- 5. Chapter 1 From the last century history of ideas on children's nature and intersubjectivity
- 6. Chapter 2 Recent related findings making a difference: Mirror neurons and participant perception
- 7. Chapter 3 Introduction to child's steps to speech in ontogeny and questions about cultural evolution
- 8. Part II. On the origin of (pre)speech and efficient infant learners
- 9. Chapter 4 On language evolution and imitative learning: What can computer simulations tell us?
- 10. Chapter 5 On cultural evolution of mother-centred learning: Comparing humans and chimpanzees
- 11. Chapter 6 On prosocial behaviour in adult apes and young children: Roots of genuine altruism?
- 12. Part III. Intersubjective steps to speech and mind-reading in ontogeny
- 13. Chapter 7 From newborns' imitation: On primary intersubjectivity and perturbations
- 14. Chapter 8 From object-oriented joint attention and other-centred infant learning
- 15. Chapter 9 On children in conversation and in self-dialogue
- 16. Chapter 10 When conversation partners become virtual co-authors of what the other is saying
- 17. Chapter 11 When the intersubjective mirror has been biologically broken: The autistic spectrum
- 18. Chapter 12 The intersubjective steps in retrospect and guidance, and prospects for further research
- 19. Glossary
- 20. Bibliography
- 21. Author index
- 22. Subject index
by "Nielsen BookData"
