Perspectives on Imitation : From Neuroscience to Social Science.
Title:
Perspectives on Imitation : From Neuroscience to Social Science.
Author:
Hurley, Susan.
ISBN:
9780262275941
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (453 pages)
Contents:
Introduction: The Importance of Imitation -- 1 The Mirror Neuron System and Imitation -- 2 Understanding Others: Imitation, Language, and Empathy -- 3 ''Being Like Me'': Self-Other Identity, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy Vittorio Gallese -- 4 The Neurophysiology of Imitation and Intersubjectivity -- 5 An Ideomotor Approach to Imitation -- 6 Imitation by Association -- 7 The Shared Circuits Hypothesis: A Unified Functional Architecture for Control, Imitation, and Simulation -- 8 Commentary and Discussion on Mechanisms of Imitation -- 9 Detecting, Understanding, and Explaining Imitation by Animals -- 10 Insights into Vocal Imitation in African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus) -- 11 Selective Imitation in Child and Chimpanzee: A Window on the Construal of Others' Actions -- 12 Commentary and Discussion on Imitation in Animals -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index to Volume 1 -- Index to Volume 2.
Abstract:
A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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