The Imitative Mind

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.

Introduction and Overview
An interdisciplinary introduction to the imitative mind and brain
Developmental and Evolutionary Approaches to Imitation
Building blocks for a developmental theory of imitation
Imitation and imitation recognition: functional use in preverbal infants and nonverbal children with autism
Self-awareness, other-awareness, and secondary representation
Notes on individual differences and the assumed elusiveness of neonatal imitation
Ego function of early imitation
The imitator's representation of the imitated: ape and child
Seeing actions as hierarchically organised structures: great ape manual skills
Cognitive Approaches to Imitation, Body Scheme, and Perception-action Coding
Experimental approaches to imitation
Imitation: common mechanisms in the observation and execution of finger and mouth movements
Goal-directed imitation
Visuomotor couplings in object-orientated and imitative actions
On bodies and events
What is the body schema?
Neuroscience Underpinnings of Imitation and Apraxia
From mirror neurons to imitation: facts and speculations
Cell populations in the banks of the superior temporal sulcus of the macaque and imitation
Is there such a thing as a functional equivalence between imagined, observed, and executed action?
The role of imitation in body ownership and mental growth
Imitation, apraxia, and hemisphere dominance
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