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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... produced. Bekkering describes a variety of behavioral tests of an observation/ execution matching system using the stimulus-response compatibility paradigm from experimental psychology. He presents neuroimaging (fMRI) work providing ...
... produced. Bekkering describes a variety of behavioral tests of an observation/ execution matching system using the stimulus-response compatibility paradigm from experimental psychology. He presents neuroimaging (fMRI) work providing ...
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... producing actions oneself, (b) perceiving actions produced by others, and even (c) thinking about actions through mental simulation. These regions potentially provide the neural substrate for the imitation found in human infants ...
... producing actions oneself, (b) perceiving actions produced by others, and even (c) thinking about actions through mental simulation. These regions potentially provide the neural substrate for the imitation found in human infants ...
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... produced movements provide pro- prioceptive feedback that can be compared to the representation of the observed act . AIM proposes that such comparison is possible because the observation and execution of human acts are coded within a ...
... produced movements provide pro- prioceptive feedback that can be compared to the representation of the observed act . AIM proposes that such comparison is possible because the observation and execution of human acts are coded within a ...
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... produced the previous person's gesture . Meltzoff and Moore hypothesized that when infants are confused about the identity of a person , they are motivated to test how the person will respond to actions . It is their way of asking ...
... produced the previous person's gesture . Meltzoff and Moore hypothesized that when infants are confused about the identity of a person , they are motivated to test how the person will respond to actions . It is their way of asking ...
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... producing the correct articulatory movements on the basis of auditory input? This was examined in a study of infant ... produced signifi- cantly more /a/-like utterances when exposed to /a/ than when exposed to /i/ or /u/ and so on for ...
... producing the correct articulatory movements on the basis of auditory input? This was examined in a study of infant ... produced signifi- cantly more /a/-like utterances when exposed to /a/ than when exposed to /i/ or /u/ and so on for ...
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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