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The Primate Mind : Built to Connect with Other Minds.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (409 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062917
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Primate MindDDC classification:
  • 599.8/1513
LOC classification:
  • QL737
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. A Bottom- Up Approach to the Primate Mind -- Section One. From Understanding of the Actions of Others to Culture -- Chapter 2. The Mirror Neuron System in Monkeys and Its Implications for Social Cognitive Functions -- Chapter 3. The Human Mirror Neuron System and Its Role in Imitation and Empathy -- Chapter 4. Social Rules and Body Scheme -- Chapter 5. What, Whom, and How: Selectivity in Social Learning -- Chapter 6. Learning How to Forage: Socially Biased Individual Learning and "Niche Construction" in Wild Capuchin Monkeys -- Chapter 7. Social Learning and Culture in Child and Chimpanzee -- Section Two. Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Cooperation -- Chapter 8. A Bottom- Up View of Empathy -- Chapter 9. What Does the Primate Mind Know about Other Minds? A Review of Primates' Understanding of Visual Attention -- Chapter 10. Human Empathy through the Lens of Psychology and Social Neuroscience -- Chapter 11. How Much of Our Cooperative Behavior Is Human? -- Chapter 12. Fetal Testosterone in Mind: Human Sex Differences and Autism -- Section Three. Memory, Emotions, and Communication -- Chapter 13. The Role of Broca's Area in Socio- Communicative Pro cesses of Chimpanzees -- Chapter 14. Emotional Engagement: How Chimpanzee Minds Develop -- Chapter 15. Distress Alleviation in Monkeys and Apes: A Window into the Primate Mind? -- Chapter 16. Enquiries Concerning Chimpanzee Understanding -- Chapter 17. What Is Uniquely Human? A View from Comparative Cognitive Development in Humans and Chimpanzees -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, and primatologists from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation, joint action, and empathy as well as their evolutionary foundations.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. A Bottom- Up Approach to the Primate Mind -- Section One. From Understanding of the Actions of Others to Culture -- Chapter 2. The Mirror Neuron System in Monkeys and Its Implications for Social Cognitive Functions -- Chapter 3. The Human Mirror Neuron System and Its Role in Imitation and Empathy -- Chapter 4. Social Rules and Body Scheme -- Chapter 5. What, Whom, and How: Selectivity in Social Learning -- Chapter 6. Learning How to Forage: Socially Biased Individual Learning and "Niche Construction" in Wild Capuchin Monkeys -- Chapter 7. Social Learning and Culture in Child and Chimpanzee -- Section Two. Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Cooperation -- Chapter 8. A Bottom- Up View of Empathy -- Chapter 9. What Does the Primate Mind Know about Other Minds? A Review of Primates' Understanding of Visual Attention -- Chapter 10. Human Empathy through the Lens of Psychology and Social Neuroscience -- Chapter 11. How Much of Our Cooperative Behavior Is Human? -- Chapter 12. Fetal Testosterone in Mind: Human Sex Differences and Autism -- Section Three. Memory, Emotions, and Communication -- Chapter 13. The Role of Broca's Area in Socio- Communicative Pro cesses of Chimpanzees -- Chapter 14. Emotional Engagement: How Chimpanzee Minds Develop -- Chapter 15. Distress Alleviation in Monkeys and Apes: A Window into the Primate Mind? -- Chapter 16. Enquiries Concerning Chimpanzee Understanding -- Chapter 17. What Is Uniquely Human? A View from Comparative Cognitive Development in Humans and Chimpanzees -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

Prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, and primatologists from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation, joint action, and empathy as well as their evolutionary foundations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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