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Third edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 498 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Early manifestations of mindreading / Victoria Southgate -- Learning about the mind from evidence : children's development of intuitive theories of perception and personality / Andrew N. Meltzoff and Alison Gopnik -- Teleology : belief as perspective / Johannes Roessler and Josef Perner -- Theory of mind, development, and deafness / Henry M. Wellman and Candida C. Peterson -- Can theory of mind grow up? : mindreading in adults, and its implications for the development and neuroscience of mindreading / Ian Apperly -- Mind attribution is for morality / Liane Young and Adam Waytz -- Issues in the measurement of judgmental accuracy / David A. Kenny -- Brain electrophysiological studies of theory of mind / Mark A. Sabbagh -- Functional neuroimaging of theory of mind / Jorie Koster-Hale and Rebecca Saxe -- Theory of mind : insights from patients with acquired brain damage / Dana Samson and Caroline Michel -- Understanding emotional and cognitive empathy : a neuropsychological perspective / Anat Perry and Simon Shamay-Tsoory -- Empathy and the brain / Cade McCall and Tania Singer -- Neural sources of empathy : an evolving story / Jamil Zaki and Kevin Ochsner -- Mirror neuron system and social cognition / Christian Keysers, Marc Thioux, and Valeria Gazzola -- The mirror mechanism : understanding others from the inside / Giacomo Rizzolatti and Maddalena Fabbri-Destro -- Social neuropeptides in the human brain : oxytocin and social behavior / Markus Heinrichs, Frances S. Chen, and Gregor Domes -- Prenatal and postnatal testosterone effects on human social and emotional behavior / Bonnie Auyeung and Simon Baron-Cohen -- Understanding the genetics of empathy and the autistic spectrum / Bhismadev Chakrabarti and Simon Baron-Cohen -- Theory of mind in deaf children : illuminating the relative roles of language and executive functioning in the development of social cognition / Jennie Pyers and Peter A. de Villiers -- Social cognition in individuals with psychopathic tendencies / James Blair and Stuart F. White -- Two systems for action comprehension in autism : mirroring and mentalizing / Antonia Hamilton and Lauren Marsh -- Autism : self and others / Peter R. Hobson and Jessica A. Hobson -- A review of theory of mind interventions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum conditions / Julie A. Hadwin and Hanna Kovshoff -- Culture and the evolution of interconnected minds / Andrew Whiten -- Mindreading by simulation : the roles of imagination and mirroring / Alvin I. Goldman and Lucy C. Jordan -- Mindreading the self / Peter Carruthers. |
| Summary |
This book addresses the central psychological process separating humans from other animals: the ability to imagine the thoughts and feelings of others, and to reflect on the contents of our own mind's theory of mind (ToM). The four sections of the book cover developmental, cultural, and neurobiological approaches to ToM across different populations and species. The chapters explore the earliest stages of development of ToM in infancy, and how plastic ToM learning is; why 3-year-olds typically fail false belief tasks and how ToM continues to develop beyond childhood into adulthood; the debate between simulation theory and theory theory; cross-cultural perspectives on ToM and how ToM develops differently in deaf children; how we use our ToM when we make moral judgments, and the link between emotional intelligence and ToM; the neural basis of ToM measured by evoked response potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and studies of brain damage; emotional vs. cognitive empathy in neuropsychiatric conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, and psychopathy; the concept of self in autism and teaching methods targeting ToM deficits; the relationship between empathy, the pain matrix and the mirror neuron system; the role of oxytocin and fetal testosterone in mentalizing and empathy; the heritability of empathy and candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with empathy; and ToM in non-human primates--Publisher description. |
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Theory of Mind.
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Brain -- physiology.
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Child Development.
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Mental Disorders -- psychology.
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Autism in children.
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Philosophy of mind in children.
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Autism in children. (OCoLC)fst00822498
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Philosophy of mind in children. (OCoLC)fst01060843
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| Added Author |
Baron-Cohen, Simon, editor.
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Tager-Flusberg, Helen, editor.
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Lombardo, Michael V., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Understanding other minds. Third edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780191668791 (OCoLC)867049990 |
| ISBN |
9780199692972 (paperback) |
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0199692971 (paperback) |
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