The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain BasesAndrew N. Meltzoff, Wolfgang Prinz 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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... motor codes have no way of talking to each other directly. Sensory codes and motor codes are incommensurate in terms of their contents. Sensory codes stand for patterns of stimulation in sense organs, while motor codes stand for ...
... motor codes have no way of talking to each other directly. Sensory codes and motor codes are incommensurate in terms of their contents. Sensory codes stand for patterns of stimulation in sense organs, while motor codes stand for ...
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... motor actions . Cognitive Brain Research , 3 , 131–141 . Runeson , S. , & Frykholm , G. ( 1983 ) . Kinematic specification of dynamics as in informational basis for person - and - action perception : Expectation , gender recognition ...
... motor actions . Cognitive Brain Research , 3 , 131–141 . Runeson , S. , & Frykholm , G. ( 1983 ) . Kinematic specification of dynamics as in informational basis for person - and - action perception : Expectation , gender recognition ...
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... motor output . This involves vision , cross - modal coordination , and motor control . If imitation takes place after a significant delay , memory and the representation of action come into play . For brain scientists , this is ...
... motor output . This involves vision , cross - modal coordination , and motor control . If imitation takes place after a significant delay , memory and the representation of action come into play . For brain scientists , this is ...
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... motor acts and that this observation/execution system is innate. However, it is equally important that infants are not compelled to go immediately from percep- tion to motor performance. Young children can observe a novel behavior on ...
... motor acts and that this observation/execution system is innate. However, it is equally important that infants are not compelled to go immediately from percep- tion to motor performance. Young children can observe a novel behavior on ...
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... motor actions . The empirical findings at first surprised psychologists . They showed that infants could imitate prior to the learning experiences , indicating an innate mapping between observa- tion and execution . In an early study ...
... motor actions . The empirical findings at first surprised psychologists . They showed that infants could imitate prior to the learning experiences , indicating an innate mapping between observa- tion and execution . In an early study ...
Contents
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Part II Cognitive approaches to imitation body scheme and perceptionaction coding | 141 |
Part III Neuroscience underpinnings of imitation and apraxia | 245 |
Index | 347 |
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The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases Andrew N. Meltzoff,Wolfgang Prinz Limited preview - 2002 |
The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases Andrew N. Meltzoff,Wolfgang Prinz No preview available - 2002 |
The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases Andrew N. Meltzoff,Wolfgang Prinz No preview available - 2011 |
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