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The Imitative Mind - Development, Evolution and Brain Bases (Hardcover): Andrew N. Meltzoff, Wolfgang Prinz The Imitative Mind - Development, Evolution and Brain Bases (Hardcover)
Andrew N. Meltzoff, Wolfgang Prinz
R3,139 R2,642 Discovery Miles 26 420 Save R497 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Imitative Mind - Development, Evolution and Brain Bases (Paperback): Andrew N. Meltzoff, Wolfgang Prinz The Imitative Mind - Development, Evolution and Brain Bases (Paperback)
Andrew N. Meltzoff, Wolfgang Prinz
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Scientist in the Crib - What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind (Paperback): Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff,... The Scientist in the Crib - What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind (Paperback)
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl
R419 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R98 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them. It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is our most important instinct. It also reveals as fascinating insights about our adult capacities and how even young children -- as well as adults -- use some of the same methods that allow scientists to learn so much about the world. Filled with surprise at every turn, this vivid, lucid, and often funny book gives us a new view of the inner life of children and the mysteries of the mind.

Words, Thoughts, and Theories (Paperback, New Ed): Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff Words, Thoughts, and Theories (Paperback, New Ed)
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff
R1,220 Discovery Miles 12 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Words, Thoughts, and Theories" articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories, a view of the origins of knowledge and meaning that has broad implications for cognitive science.

Gopnik and Meltzoff interweave philosophical arguments and empirical data from their own and other's research. Both the philosophy and the psychology, the arguments and the data, address the same fundamental epistemological question: How do we come to understand the world around us?

Recently, the theory theory has led to much interesting research. However, this is the first book to look at the theory in extensive detail and to systematically contrast it with other theories. It is also the first to apply the theory to infancy and early childhood, to use the theory to provide a framework for understanding semantic development, and to demonstrate that language acquisition influences theory change in children.The authors show that children just beginning to talk are engaged in profound restructurings of several domains of knowledge. These restructurings are similar to theory changes in science, and they influence children's early semantic development, since children's cognitive concerns shape and motivate their use of very early words. But, in addition, children pay attention to the language they hear around them and this too reshapes their cognition, and causes them to reorganize their theories.

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