The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech

Name: The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech
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Erschienen am 29. Juli 2009

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The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface (with acknowledgments)
Note
PART I. Background for questions and findings inviting a paradigm shift
From the last century history of ideas on children's nature and intersubjectivity
On Buber's distinction of I-You and I-It relations
In the beginning is the relation: Language in "primitive" cultures
In the beginning is the relation: The domain of child development
Mead's social philosophy as a basis for understanding symbolic interaction
When a vocal gesture becomes a significant symbol
Wittgenstein on meaning, language games and children's language learning
How language comes alive for children
On Buber, Mead and Wittgenstein transcending Leibnizian monads
From Leibnizian monads to Piaget's self-regulative mental structures
From Freud's attribution to infants of 'normal autism'
From Piaget's attribution of an egocentric perspective
Freudian and Piagetian views yielded some strange advices to parents
Object Relations Theory from Freud
Piaget's theory of ego-centricity requiring de-centration in order to allow for sociability
Some strange advices to parents and care-persons influenced by Freudian and Piagetian views
Recent findings on primary intersubjectivity confirm parents' experiences
Note: Some last century publications pertinent to a current paradigmatic shift
Recent related findings making a difference
When feeding situations invite participant perception
Identification of infant learning by other-centred participation
Can I understand you without drawing upon symbolic or conceptual representations?
On the discovery of mirror neurons
More in detail on what led up to the discovery of a mirror neurons system in the human brain
On perceptual reversal and frame of reference transformation
Can we read our partners' minds without access to a constructed theory of mind?
An early model of simulation of mind in conversation partners
Returning to the nature of mind-reading in the light of the mirror neurons discovery
Questions about the relation between altercentric participation and we-centric space
When tongue muscles are activated upon listening to words
On mouth mirror neurons and imitation of gestures
Why is imitation in face-to-face situations more difficult than sitting side by side?
Introduction to child's steps to speech in ontogeny and questions about cultural evolution
From primary intersubjectivity, as defined by Trevarthen, to speech and mind-reading
(I) Newborns' imitation and protoconversation in the first weeks and months
(II) Object-oriented learning by altercentric participation and reading of intention
(III) Listener's altercentric perception and interlocutors' simulation of one another's act
On primary and higher order consciousness and Stern's specification of senses of self
The various senses of self according to Daniel Stern
Primary consciousness and the senses of an emergent self and of a core self
Secondary intersubjectivity, core consciousness, and the sense of the intersubjective sel
Tertiary intersubjectivity, verbal self, narrative self, and simulation and theory of mind
An intermediate comment on the different usages of the term "intersubjectivity"
Ontogenetic and sociogenetic dimensions of intersubjectivity: Conflicting views
Questions about phylogeny: Speculation about the selective pressure on early hominids
Questions about domains of cultural evolution
Notes: On philosophy of the present and a paradox of time entailed by participant perception
Philosophy of the present, feelings and temporal dualities
On relativity and the mode of presentational immediacy
PART II. On the origin of (pre)speech and efficient infant learners
On language evolution and imitative learning
'Homo symbolicus'
Why computer simulations? Reply in terms of a tripartite scheme
When empirical clues about human evolution are lacking - tools for exploring assumptions
On alternative mechanisms of cultural learning and communication
Computer simulation models with and without natural selection mechanisms
Altruism or symmetric cooperation involved in language evolution?
A model of language-physiology co-evolution (Livingstone & Fyfe)
A model of self-organizational emergence of sound systems in a population (de Boer)
A model of grammar acquisition by means of exemplars (Batali)
Syntax without Darwinian selection in a population of observational learners (Kirby)
On the critical role of the learning child
Innate basis for acquisition and articulation of speech?
Speculation on the selective advantage of learning by (m)other-centred mirroring
When asked to do what the facing instructor is doing
Face-to-face re-enactment of manual moves - a problem for subjects with autism
On the background for speculations about possible neurosocial architecture
May such an altercentric (mirror) system be operative already in human newborns?
On two computer models involving artificial 'neural network' simulations
Connectionist simulations comparing 'egocentric' and 'altercentric' networks (Bråten)
Computer simulation of imitation of arm-raising in a face-to-face situation (Billard & Arbib)
On mirror reversal face-to-face and the open question about the role of the cerebellum
On cultural evolution of mother-centred learning
Do we have a firmer ground for speculating about pre-linguistic evolution?
Comparative studies of infant-adult interaction in humans and chimpanzees
Imitation of odd walking and "baby-sitting" posture
A mother's "medical care" prevents suffocation and releases holding behaviour
Two different "situational definitions" of a similar event
Moving with the mother's movement when back-riding
An object-oriented imitating attempt by a 22 months-old
Returning to the question of cultural transitions
No cultural learning in chimpanzees?
Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?
The bonobo Panbanisha subjected to a Theory-of-Mind deception test
On the evolution of the brain and of protolanguage
Precursory to current systems serving altercentric mirroring in phylogeny and ontogeny
On cultural learning and evolution: The selective advantage of altercentric learning
On the origin of humankind
How would infants fare when they could not ride on mothers' back and before carrying bags?
Mother nature according to Hrdy
Alloparents
Neonaticide
The hominin infant decentration hypothesis
The critical importance of distant learning and the pertinent discovery of mirror neurons
The hypothesis about decentration of the mirror system in human evolution
On prosocial behaviour in adult apes and young children
Moving with the (m)other's movements
Chimpanzees can offer consolation
monkeys cannot
Reports by Anna Freud and others on early prosocial behaviours in children
Various rationalistic perspectives on altruism
How to account for altruism in toddlers?
On shared pain-processing in self and other
Shared pain-processing system pertaining to empathy, but not altruism
Recapitulation of episodes and definitions in accounting for early altruism
Pertinent for the evolution of (proto)language?
PART III. Intersubjective steps to speech and mind-reading in ontogeny
From newborns' imitation
The discovery of neonatal imitation
The discovery of protoconversation
Duet' before term with a prematurely born
When protoconversation was first revealed by film analyses
Characteristics and explanation of protoconversation
Explanation in terms of the virtual other postulate
On 'thirdness' and 'the space between'
On the musicality and dance-like movements in early infant-adult interplay
Infant sensitivity when protoconversation is perturbed
Criticism and design modification
Some earlier objections to layers of intersubjective attunement
Perturbation of infant-adult interplay due to postnatal depression
Strange situations': Infants react differently upon the return of the absent parent
From object-oriented joint attention and other-centred infant learning
Being hand-guided - actually or virtually - by the instructor
Virtually moving with the model's movements as if the learner were hand-guided
In front of the mirror: Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception
Children in front of the mirror according to Zazzo
On toddlers in front of the mirror in phenomenological light
When infants reciprocate spoon-feeding: Moving with the other's mouth movements
Some pertinent illustrations, definitions and propositions
Circular re-enactment of care-giving from e-motional memory
Neurosocial support of other-centred mirroring
The Dumb-bell experiment inviting mental simulation and manual realization
When a toddler imitates her model: From a 'now moment' to a 'moment of meeting'
The creative nature of transitional phenomena and self-dialogue in early ontogeny
On children in conversation and in self-dialogue
Language learning as an inherently intersubjective phenomenon
Different language landscapes afford different temporal and reality patterns
When time is being indicated
From Anna Freud's report on rescued orphans' foreign language acquisition
Children in conversation with adults and with "themselves"
Narratives from the Crib: Emily in conversation with her father and then with herself
Confronted with a puzzle: A two-and-a-half-year old girl with her mother attending
Private speech or dialogue with one's virtual or evoked companion
Self-dialogical narratives
On "egocentric speech" and problem-processing self-dialogue
Unfamiliar situations evoking creative self-dialogue
Manifestations of private speech vary with age
In relation to other children: Play and pretend play
When children listen to fairy tales
Pretend play
Two four year old friends during pretend play
Children's imaginary companions or invisible playmates
Are children with invisible playmates less social than other children?
Visual and verbal narratives: Cosmology of a five-year-old
At school and in the classroom: When the creative self-dialogue is silenced
Hidden dimensions of classroom learning?
Problem-processing when denied access to the actual other: The hat-rack experiment
'Perpetuum mobile' connections in the current network society
When conversation partners become virtual co-authors of what the other is saying
On theory-of-mind concepts: Theory version or simulation version?
A conversation model of coding regulation through simulation of co-actor processes
A conversation model of internal coding regulation by simulation of processing in the partner
Manifest implication of simulation of the partner's mind: Sentence completion
How two conversation partners complete one another: de Beauvoir and Sartre
Discussion: On some objections to the simulation version of theory of mind
In the light of the revealed mirror neuron systems support
Is simulation of mind self-oriented or other-oriented?
On the nature of the path from bodily imitation to participation in another's mental life
On now-moments and other-centred moments of meeting in clinical conversations
Note: On some issues of time in observation and computer simulation of conversation
The third person and the present in affect attunement
On self-reference and simulated time being arrested for dialogical loops to be completed
Studies of conversational dyads
Temporal duality
When the intersubjective mirror has been biologically broken
On the introduction and (mis)use of the label 'autism'
On the biological roots and prevalence of autism
Prevalence of high-functioning and low-functioning and gender differences
From the autobiographical reports of three women with autism
On the chaos caused by sensory problems in autism
Emotions are certainly not absent, but....
Impairments in the autistic spectrum compared to the typical intersubjective layers
The broken mirror
Rare cases of children with autism who have quite special talents
When therapy, sign language or new experiences open windows to altered behaviours
The intersubjective steps in retrospect and guidance, and prospects for further research
Distinguishing imitative re-enactment from pre-enacting and co-enacting resonance
Co-articulation, repetition, and anticipatory simulation at the tertiary intersubjective layer
Re-enactment vs. co-enactment or pre-enactment at the secondary intersubjective layer
Pre-enactment, co-enactment and re-enactment at the primary intersubjective layer
Pertinent for caregiver guidance in the contexts of Marte Meo and ICDP approach
Questions inviting further research on perceptual reversal and mind-reading
Questions about perceptual reversal by imitating newborns and the role of cerebellum
Does the actual other-relation and gender make a difference in modes of mind-reading?
Do our sensory modes in language differ from modalities related to music and dance?
Concluding questions about early altruism and the roles of socializing agents
Glossary
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index
Advances in Consciousness Research

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