Research Catalog

Title

The intersubjective mirror in infant learning and evolution of speech / Stein Bråten.

Author

Bråten, Stein

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

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Details

Description

351 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 76

Uniform Title

Advances in consciousness research v. 76.

Subjects

• Psychology, Comparative
• Emotions in children
• Emotions in infants
• Interpersonal communication in children
• Interpersonal communication in infants
• Language Development
• Communication
• Speech > physiology
• Interpersonal Relations
• Infant
• Child

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-341) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. Background for questions and findings inviting a paradigm shift -- 1. From the last century history of ideas on children's nature and intersubjectivity -- 2. Recent related findings making a difference: Mirror neurons and participant perception -- 3. Introduction to child's steps to speech in ontogeny and questions about cultural evolution -- Pt. II. On the origin of (pre)speech and efficient infant learners -- 4. On language evolution and imitative learning: What can computer simulations tell us? -- 5. On cultural evolution of mother-centred learning: Comparing humans and chimpanzees -- 6. On prosocial behaviour in adult apes and young children: Roots of genuine altruism? -- Pt. III. Intersubjective steps to speech and mind-reading in ontogeny -- 7. From newborns' imitation: On primary intersubjectivity and perturbations -- 8. From object-oriented joint attention and other-centred infant learning -- 9. On children in conversation and in self-dialogue -- 10. When conversation partners become virtual co-authors of what the other is saying -- 11. When the intersubjective mirror has been biologically broken: The autistic spectrum -- 12. The intersubjective steps in retrospect and guidance, and prospects for further research.

ISBN

9789027252128 (hb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009018218

OCLC

320800544

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library