In:The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech
Stein Bråten
[Advances in Consciousness Research 76] 2009
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 29 July 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.76.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.76.toc
Table of contents
List of illustrations
List of tablesxi
Preface (with acknowledgments)
Part I. Background for questions and findings inviting a paradigm shift
Chapter 1 From the last century history of ideas on children’s nature and intersubjectivity
Chapter 2 Recent related findings making a difference: Mirror neurons and participant perception
Chapter 3 Introduction to child’s steps to speech in ontogeny and questions about cultural evolution
Part II. On the origin of (pre)speech and efficient infant learners
Chapter 4 On language evolution and imitative learning: What can computer simulations tell us?
Chapter 5 On cultural evolution of mother-centred learning: Comparing humans and chimpanzees
Chapter 6 On prosocial behaviour in adult apes and young children: Roots of genuine altruism?
Part III. Intersubjective steps to speech and mind-reading in ontogeny
Chapter 7 From newborns’ imitation: On primary intersubjectivity and perturbations
Chapter 8 From object-oriented joint attention and other-centred infant learning
Chapter 9 On children in conversation and in self-dialogue
Chapter 10 When conversation partners become virtual co-authors of what the other is saying
Chapter 11 When the intersubjective mirror has been biologically broken: The autistic spectrum
Chapter 12 The intersubjective steps in retrospect and guidance, and prospects for further research
Glossary
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index
