Agency and joint attention / edited by Janet Metcalfe, Herbert S. Terrace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Metcalfe, Janet.

Terrace, Herbert S., 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joint attention.

Intentionalism.

Human behavior.

Psychology, Comparative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The puzzle that motivates 'Agency and Joint Attention' is how people are able at one and the same time to maintain their own sense of autonomy, taking responsibility for their own actions and distinguishing them from the actions of others, while still being able to understand, appreciate, and coordinate their thoughts and actions with other people.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Becoming Human: Why Two Minds Are Better Than One; 2. How Joint Is the Joint Attention of Apes and Human Infants?; 3. The Comparative Delusion: The "Behavioristic/Mentalistic" Dichotomy in Comparative Theory of Mind Research; 4. Behavior-Reading versus Mentalizing in Animals; 5. On Knowing and Being Known in the 4-Month Origins of Disorganized Attachment: An Emerging Presymbolic Theory of Mind; 6. Gaze Following and Agency in Human Infancy; 7. Ostensive Communication and Cultural Learning: The Natural Pedagogy Hypothesis

8. Embodied Attention in Infant Pointing9. Understanding the Structure of Communicative Interactions in Infancy; 10. Cognition in Action: A New Look at the Cortical Motor System; 11. Early Sensitivity to Emotion Cues: Precursors of Social Referencing?; 12. Linking Joint Attention and Joint Action; 13. Do You See What I See? The Neural Bases of Joint Attention; 14. "Knowing" that the Self is the Agent; 15. Cues to Agency: Time Can Tell; 16. The Meaning of Actions: Cross-Talk between Procedural and Declarative Action Knowledge

17. The Three Pillars of Volition: Phenomenal States, Ideomotor Processing, and the Skeletal Muscle System18. The Function of Consciousness in Controlling Behavior; 19. Sense of Agency: Many Facets, Multiple Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-75693-X

0-19-998835-8

OCLC:

855022924