Imitation in Infancy
Published on 17. February 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-0-521-18137-2 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1999, this book brings together the extensive modern evidence for innate imitation in babies. Modern research has shown imitation to be a natural mechanism of learning and communication which deserves to be at centre stage in developmental psychology. Yet the very possibility of imitation in newborn humans has had a controversial history. Defining imitation has proved to be far from straightforward and scientific evidence for its existence in neonates is only now becoming accepted, despite more than a century of enquiry. In this book, some of the world's foremost researchers on imitation and intellectual development review evidence for imitation in newborn babies. They discuss the development of imitation in infancy, in both normal and atypical populations and in comparison with other primate species, stressing the fundamental importance of imitation in human development, as a foundation of communication and a precursor to symbolic processes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
493 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-18137-2 (9780521181372)
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Jacqueline Nadel | George Butterworth
Imitation in Infancy
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02/1999
Cambridge University Press
€55.71
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Jacqueline Nadel | George Butterworth
Imitation in Infancy
Book
02/1999
Cambridge University Press
€55.71
Article exhausted; check for reprint
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Content
Preface: Immediate imitation rehabilitated at last George Butterworth and Jacqueline Nadel; Part I. Imitation in Human Infancy: 1. Persons and representation: why infant imitation is important for theories of human development Andrew N. Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore; 2. Development of early infant imitation to facial and vocal models Giannis Kugiumutzakis; Part II. Imitation: Theoretical issues in phylogeny and ontogeny: 3. Neonatal imitation: existence, mechanisms, motives George Butterworth; 4. Evolutionary foundations of imitation: social, cognitive and developmental aspects of imitative processes in non-human primates Kim Bard and Connie L. Russell; Part III. Social motives for imitation in infancy: Imitation as a matching motive system between two brains Colwyn Trevarthen, Theano Kokkinaki and Gerald A. Fiamenghi Jr; 6. Imitation as activity: its developmental aspect Ina Uzgiris; Part IV. Imitation, communication and developmental psychopathology: 7. The evolving nature of imitation as a format for communication Jacqueline Nadel, Caroline Guirini, Anne Peze and Christine Rivet; 8. Imitation and developmental disabilities Mickael Heimann and Eva Ullstadius; 9. An examination of the imitation deficit in autism Sally J. Rogers.