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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... temporal or spatial contiguity. According to the principles of contrast and similarity, the same may occur with ideas that resemble each other (hot–warm) or oppose each other (hot–cold). In modern cognitive theories, a role for ...
... temporal or spatial contiguity. According to the principles of contrast and similarity, the same may occur with ideas that resemble each other (hot–warm) or oppose each other (hot–cold). In modern cognitive theories, a role for ...
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... temporal analogs of spatial objects. Events are parsed into segments by objects; each successive segment typically involves a new object as well as new actions on the object. The authors' concern with the human body relates to work on ...
... temporal analogs of spatial objects. Events are parsed into segments by objects; each successive segment typically involves a new object as well as new actions on the object. The authors' concern with the human body relates to work on ...
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... temporal cortex achieve a visual representation of actions such as walking, reaching, and redirecting attention. The representations are built in such a way as to allow the observer to generalize across different perspectives in which ...
... temporal cortex achieve a visual representation of actions such as walking, reaching, and redirecting attention. The representations are built in such a way as to allow the observer to generalize across different perspectives in which ...
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... temporal clues or spatial clues, because the sound came from midline and was synchronized with both faces. The only way infants could solve this problem is by recognizing cross-modal correspondence between the auditory and visual speech ...
... temporal clues or spatial clues, because the sound came from midline and was synchronized with both faces. The only way infants could solve this problem is by recognizing cross-modal correspondence between the auditory and visual speech ...
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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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