The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases

by Edited by Andrew N. Meltzoff , Wolfgang Prinz

• ISBN13: 9780521806855
• ISBN10: 0521806852
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Modern research demonstrates that imitation is more complex and interesting than classical theories proposed. Monkeys do not imitate whereas humans are prolific imitators. This book provides an analysis of empirical work on imitation and shows how much can be learned through interdisciplinary research ranging from cells to individuals, apes to men, and babies to adults. Covering diverse perspectives on a great puzzle of human psychology, the book is multidisciplinary in its approach to revealing how and why we imitate.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
An introduction to the imitative mind and brain	1	(18)
Wolfgang Prinz
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Part I Developmental and evolutionary approaches to imitation
Elements of a developmental theory of imitation	19	(23)
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Imitation and imitation recognition: Functional use in preverbal infants and nonverbal children with autism	42	(21)
Jacqueline Nadel
Self-awareness, other-awareness, and secondary representation	63	(11)
Jens B. Asendorpf
Notes on individual differences and the assumed elusiveness of neonatal imitation	74	(11)
Mikael Heimann
Ego function of early imitation	85	(13)
Philippe Rochat
The imitator's representation of the imitated: Ape and child	98	(24)
Andrew Whiten
Seeing actions as hierarchically organized structures: Great ape manual skills	122	(21)
Richard W. Byrne
Part II Cognitive approaches to imitation, body scheme, and perception-action coding
Experimental approaches to imitation	143	(20)
Wolfgang Prinz
Imitation: Common mechanisms in the observation and execution of finger and mouth movements	163	(20)
Harold Bekkering
Goal-directed imitation	183	(23)
Merideth Gattis
Harold Bekkering
Andreas Wohlschlager
Visuomotor couplings in object-oriented and imitative actions	206	(15)
Stefan Vogt
On bodies and events	221	(12)
Barbara Tversky
Julie Bauer Morrison
Jeff Zacks
What is the body schema?	233	(14)
Catherine L. Reed
Part III Neuroscience underpinnings of imitation and apraxia
From mirror neurons to imitation: Facts and speculations	247	(20)
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Luciano Fadiga
Leonardo Fogassi
Vittorio Gallese
Cell populations in the banks of the superior temporal sulcus of the macaque and imitation	267	(24)
Tjeerd Jellema
Chris I. Baker
Michael W. Oram
David I. Perrett
Is there such a thing as functional equivalence between imagined, observed, and executed action?	291	(20)
Jean Decety
The role of imitation in body ownership and mental growth	311	(20)
Marcel Kinsbourne
Imitation, apraxia, and hemisphere dominance	331	(16)
Georg Goldenberg
Joachim Hermsdorfer
Index	347