Joint attention : new developments in psychology, philosophy of mind, and social neuroscience / edited by Axel Seemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seemann, Axel, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joint attention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 493 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention -- the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature -- has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what joint attention is, how it ought to be characterized, and what exactly its significance consists in. The writers for this volume address these and related questions by drawing on a variety of disciplines, including developmental and comparative psychology, philosophy of mind, and social neuroscience. The volume organizes their contributions along three main themes: definitional concerns, such as the question of whether or not joint attention should be understood as an irreducibly basic state of mind; processes and mechanisms obtaining on both the neural and behavioral levels; and the functional significance of joint attention, in particular the role it plays in comprehending spatial perspectives and understanding other minds. The collected papers present new work by leading researchers on one of the key issues in social cognition. They demonstrate that an adequate theory of joint attention is indispensable for a comprehensive account of mind.

Contents:

What is joint attention? : comparative, developmental, and definitional issues / Axel seemann

Getting beyond rich and lean views of joint attention / Timothy P. Racine

Joint attention : twelve myths / David A. Leavens

The generation of human meaning : how shared experience grows in infancy / Colwyn Trevarthen

Joint attention or joint engagement? : insights from autism / Peter and Jessica Hobson

A gaze at grips with me / Vasudevi Reddy

Joint attention, communication, and knowing together in infancy / Malinda Carpenter and Kristin Liebal

Joint attention : towards a relational account / Axel Seemann

How does joint attention work? : mechanisms and processes

Sociality, attention and the mind's eyes / Stephen Shepherd and Massimiliano Cappuccio

Some preliminary observations on the neural correlates of joint attention in chimpanzees / William D. Hopkins and Jared Taglialatela

Social cognition and the allure of the second person perspective : in defense of empathy and simulation / Karsten R. Stueber

Interactive coordination in joint attention / Shaun Gallagher

Elementary mind minding, enactivist-style / Daniel D. Hutto

The phenomenology of joint action : self-agency vs. joint-agency / Elisabeth Pacherie

What does joint attention explain? : spatial awareness and other minds

Joint attention as the fundamental basis of understanding perspectives / Henrike Moll and Andrew Meltzoff

An object-dependent perspective on joint attention / John Campbell

Grasping affordance : a window onto social cognition / Marcello Costantini and Corrado Sinigaglia.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-30062-1

0-262-30372-8

OCLC:

857960960

Publisher Number:

9780262303729