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The intersubjective mirror in infant learning and evolution of speech / / Stein Braten
| The intersubjective mirror in infant learning and evolution of speech / / Stein Braten |
| Autore | Braten Stein |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
| Disciplina | 155.42/2 |
| Collana | Advances in consciousness research |
| Soggetto topico |
Interpersonal communication in infants
Interpersonal communication in children Emotions in infants Emotions in children Psychology, Comparative |
| ISBN |
1-282-24533-3
9786612245336 90-272-8923-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface (with acknowledgments) -- Note -- PART I. Background for questions and findings inviting a paradigm shift -- From the last century history of ideas on children's nature and intersubjectivity -- On Buber's distinction of I-You and I-It relations -- In the beginning is the relation: Language in "primitive" cultures -- In the beginning is the relation: The domain of child development -- Mead's social philosophy as a basis for understanding symbolic interaction -- When a vocal gesture becomes a significant symbol -- Wittgenstein on meaning, language games and children's language learning -- How language comes alive for children -- On Buber, Mead and Wittgenstein transcending Leibnizian monads -- From Leibnizian monads to Piaget's self-regulative mental structures -- From Freud's attribution to infants of 'normal autism' -- From Piaget's attribution of an egocentric perspective -- Freudian and Piagetian views yielded some strange advices to parents -- Object Relations Theory from Freud -- Piaget's theory of ego-centricity requiring de-centration in order to allow for sociability -- Some strange advices to parents and care-persons influenced by Freudian and Piagetian views -- Recent findings on primary intersubjectivity confirm parents' experiences -- Note: Some last century publications pertinent to a current paradigmatic shift -- Recent related findings making a difference -- When feeding situations invite participant perception -- Identification of infant learning by other-centred participation -- Can I understand you without drawing upon symbolic or conceptual representations? -- On the discovery of mirror neurons.
More in detail on what led up to the discovery of a mirror neurons system in the human brain -- On perceptual reversal and frame of reference transformation -- Can we read our partners' minds without access to a constructed theory of mind? -- An early model of simulation of mind in conversation partners -- Returning to the nature of mind-reading in the light of the mirror neurons discovery -- Questions about the relation between altercentric participation and we-centric space -- When tongue muscles are activated upon listening to words -- On mouth mirror neurons and imitation of gestures -- Why is imitation in face-to-face situations more difficult than sitting side by side? -- Introduction to child's steps to speech in ontogeny and questions about cultural evolution -- From primary intersubjectivity, as defined by Trevarthen, to speech and mind-reading -- (I) Newborns' imitation and protoconversation in the first weeks and months -- (II) Object-oriented learning by altercentric participation and reading of intention -- (III) Listener's altercentric perception and interlocutors' simulation of one another's act -- On primary and higher order consciousness and Stern's specification of senses of self -- The various senses of self according to Daniel Stern -- Primary consciousness and the senses of an emergent self and of a core self -- Secondary intersubjectivity, core consciousness, and the sense of the intersubjective sel -- Tertiary intersubjectivity, verbal self, narrative self, and simulation and theory of mind -- An intermediate comment on the different usages of the term "intersubjectivity" -- Ontogenetic and sociogenetic dimensions of intersubjectivity: Conflicting views -- Questions about phylogeny: Speculation about the selective pressure on early hominids -- Questions about domains of cultural evolution. Notes: On philosophy of the present and a paradox of time entailed by participant perception -- Philosophy of the present, feelings and temporal dualities -- On relativity and the mode of presentational immediacy -- PART II. On the origin of (pre)speech and efficient infant learners -- On language evolution and imitative learning -- 'Homo symbolicus' -- Why computer simulations? Reply in terms of a tripartite scheme -- When empirical clues about human evolution are lacking - tools for exploring assumptions -- On alternative mechanisms of cultural learning and communication -- Computer simulation models with and without natural selection mechanisms -- Altruism or symmetric cooperation involved in language evolution? -- A model of language-physiology co-evolution (Livingstone & -- Fyfe) -- A model of self-organizational emergence of sound systems in a population (de Boer) -- A model of grammar acquisition by means of exemplars (Batali) -- Syntax without Darwinian selection in a population of observational learners (Kirby) -- On the critical role of the learning child -- Innate basis for acquisition and articulation of speech? -- Speculation on the selective advantage of learning by (m)other-centred mirroring -- When asked to do what the facing instructor is doing -- Face-to-face re-enactment of manual moves - a problem for subjects with autism -- On the background for speculations about possible neurosocial architecture -- May such an altercentric (mirror) system be operative already in human newborns? -- On two computer models involving artificial 'neural network' simulations -- Connectionist simulations comparing 'egocentric' and 'altercentric' networks (Bråten) -- Computer simulation of imitation of arm-raising in a face-to-face situation (Billard & -- Arbib). On mirror reversal face-to-face and the open question about the role of the cerebellum -- On cultural evolution of mother-centred learning -- Do we have a firmer ground for speculating about pre-linguistic evolution? -- Comparative studies of infant-adult interaction in humans and chimpanzees -- Imitation of odd walking and "baby-sitting" posture -- A mother's "medical care" prevents suffocation and releases holding behaviour -- Two different "situational definitions" of a similar event -- Moving with the mother's movement when back-riding -- An object-oriented imitating attempt by a 22 months-old -- Returning to the question of cultural transitions -- No cultural learning in chimpanzees? -- Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? -- The bonobo Panbanisha subjected to a Theory-of-Mind deception test -- On the evolution of the brain and of protolanguage -- Precursory to current systems serving altercentric mirroring in phylogeny and ontogeny -- On cultural learning and evolution: The selective advantage of altercentric learning -- On the origin of humankind -- How would infants fare when they could not ride on mothers' back and before carrying bags? -- Mother nature according to Hrdy -- Alloparents -- Neonaticide -- The hominin infant decentration hypothesis -- The critical importance of distant learning and the pertinent discovery of mirror neurons -- The hypothesis about decentration of the mirror system in human evolution -- On prosocial behaviour in adult apes and young children -- Moving with the (m)other's movements -- Chimpanzees can offer consolation -- monkeys cannot -- Reports by Anna Freud and others on early prosocial behaviours in children -- Various rationalistic perspectives on altruism -- How to account for altruism in toddlers? -- On shared pain-processing in self and other. Shared pain-processing system pertaining to empathy, but not altruism -- Recapitulation of episodes and definitions in accounting for early altruism -- Pertinent for the evolution of (proto)language? -- PART III. Intersubjective steps to speech and mind-reading in ontogeny -- From newborns' imitation -- The discovery of neonatal imitation -- The discovery of protoconversation -- Duet' before term with a prematurely born -- When protoconversation was first revealed by film analyses -- Characteristics and explanation of protoconversation -- Explanation in terms of the virtual other postulate -- On 'thirdness' and 'the space between' -- On the musicality and dance-like movements in early infant-adult interplay -- Infant sensitivity when protoconversation is perturbed -- Criticism and design modification -- Some earlier objections to layers of intersubjective attunement -- Perturbation of infant-adult interplay due to postnatal depression -- Strange situations': Infants react differently upon the return of the absent parent -- From object-oriented joint attention and other-centred infant learning -- Being hand-guided - actually or virtually - by the instructor -- Virtually moving with the model's movements as if the learner were hand-guided -- In front of the mirror: Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception -- Children in front of the mirror according to Zazzo -- On toddlers in front of the mirror in phenomenological light -- When infants reciprocate spoon-feeding: Moving with the other's mouth movements -- Some pertinent illustrations, definitions and propositions -- Circular re-enactment of care-giving from e-motional memory -- Neurosocial support of other-centred mirroring -- The Dumb-bell experiment inviting mental simulation and manual realization -- When a toddler imitates her model: From a 'now moment' to a 'moment of meeting'. The creative nature of transitional phenomena and self-dialogue in early ontogeny. |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009 | ||
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Roots and collapse of empathy : human nature at its best and at its worst / / Stein Braten
| Roots and collapse of empathy : human nature at its best and at its worst / / Stein Braten |
| Autore | Braten Stein |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | xv, 276 p |
| Disciplina | 152.4/1 |
| Collana | Advances in Consciousness Research |
| Soggetto topico |
Empathy
Consciousness |
| ISBN | 90-272-7173-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Roots and Collapse of Empathy -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Introduction and overview -- Overview of the book's contents in terms of questions for the various chapters -- I. Infant roots of empathy and mutual infant-adult attunement -- 1. Empathic participation: When infants feed others and participate in their movements -- Empathic mimicry in an audience exposed to a video of an imitating newborn -- Some cross-cultural snapshots of infants feeding their care-givers -- Studies of children's (pro)social interaction on four continents -- When wartime children are altruistic towards one another -- Empathic reaction to crying? -- When children come to the aid of children and adults -- From altercentricity to altruism - what is the link? -- On the partial neurosocial support and memory involved in participant learning -- 2. Infant and adult in interpersonal communion and upon perturbation -- When protoconversation was first revealed by film analyses -- Born with the virtual other in mind -- Even a prematurely born can engage the parent weeks before normal term -- Mutual immediacy of feelings in infant-adult dyads -- Perturbation in double video experiments -- Comments on and confirmation of the virtual other mechanism -- On attachment and modes of reunion in "strange situations" -- Fear of strangers and "alien" others nurtured by we-feelings -- On long-term consequences of perturbed mother-infant communication -- 3. Empathic distress, moral development and dilemma-processing -- Intersubjective layers operative in social interactions throughout life -- Modes of arousal of empathic distress according to Hoffman -- Hoffman's account of five stages in the development of empathic distress -- Shared pain-processing system pertaining to empathy.
On studies of moral development in terms of principles and moral sentiments -- Affective-cognitive inconsistency in paired students processing a moral dilemma -- The Prisoners' Dilemma is no dilemma when altruistic feelings are at play -- Five types of moral encounters or dilemmas according to Hoffman -- II. Empathy, dialogue, and their blockage -- 4. Empathy and its neurosocial support -- Terminology and categories of feelings: Empathy and vitality affects -- On imitation by newborns and participant mirroring by the spectators -- When toddlers are watching failing adults: Some experimental studies -- Returning to the question of neurobiological support: Mirror neurons -- Appendix -- 5. Children hurting and comforting, and being victims of abuse and net-bullying -- Some reports on children's anti-social, hostile and aggressive behaviour -- Cross-cultural studies of children's (pro)social interaction -- Mixed feelings and alternation -- Collapse of empathic distress -- Victims of neglect, abuse and humiliation in childhood and adolescence -- Circular re-enactment of care giving and of abuse -- Childhood sentiments and possible paths of recovery -- Can dialogue unfold itself in psychotherapy? -- The multiple voices of the minds of some childhood abuse victims -- On the emergence of the Internet society and social media -- Internet media serving terrorism -- 6. When nature prevents empathy, while opening for special talents -- On early misattribution of cause: "The refrigerator mother" -- The challenge of being asked "Do as I do!" in a face-to-face situation -- Impairments in autism compared to layers in typical development -- Returning to the topic of special talents in the autistic spectrum -- 7. When dialogue breaks down -- Group pressure and obedience: Adopting the view of the majority -- Submitting to a monolithic perspective. The idea and ideal of dialogue -- Returning to the cases of Leibniz and of Anna Freud -- How is it that one sometimes submit to a model monopoly? -- Modes of resolution and opening for dialogue between rival perspectives -- III. From genocide and terrorism to rescue and altruism -- 8. How can ordinary persons become agents of torture and extermination? -- Collapse of empathy in Milgram's "electric chair" experiments -- Totalitarian logics: 'Let there be a world free of evil!' -- The torturer's mind: Nazi war criminals -- Reserve Police Battalion 101 contributing to the "Final Solution" in Poland -- From healers to killers: The Auschwitz Self of the Nazi doctors -- May Luhmann's social systems theory pertain to the Holocaust? -- Returning to the totalitarian cannon: 'Let there be a world free of evil!' -- Returning to the question: What makes us servants of extinction? -- 9. The sole terrorist's attacks on Norway, July 22, 2011 -- The terrorist's bombing of the government buildings -- The terrorist's massacre on the island: Recounting by some of the survivors -- The terrorist's surrender -- From the terrorist's "manifesto" on the Internet -- Counter-message by mass singing and rose-carrying -- From the terrorist's court proceedings and psychiatric diagnoses -- If accountable, how could he commit the bombing and massacre? -- Could some of the horror have been prevented? On The July 22 Commission's Report -- The terrorist's Internet-mediated voice cannot be silenced -- On the court's proceedings and verdict -- 10. From civilian rescuers to this question: Is armed violence declining and non-violent revolt incr -- Saved by the boat "Reiulf" which some of the youths stumbled across -- Risking their life, civilian boat owners rescue youths swimming from Utöya -- Restoring human dignity in spite of the Holocaust: Civilian rescuers. The three-year-old orphans rescued from the Nazi concentration camps -- Altruism, interpersonal networks and group selection -- Is armed violence declining? From Einstein and Freud to Steven Pinker -- Is non-violent revolt beginning to prevail? From Gene Sharp to the Arab Spring and Women sitting dow -- Concluding words: An incredible event of reconciliation in Rwanda -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Name index -- Subject index. |
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Braten Stein
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| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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