Newborn Imitation : The Stakes of a Controversy

Name: Newborn Imitation
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108826730
Price: 3250 KES
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ISBN: 9781108826730

by Ruth Leys

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

ISBN-10 1108826733

ISBN-13 9781108826730

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 30th, 2020

Print length 84 Pages

Weight 136 grams

Dimensions 15.10 x 23.00 x 0.70 cms

Product Classification: Child & developmental psychology Child, developmental and lifespan psychology Neurosciences

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Newborn imitation has recently become the focus of a major controversy in the human sciences. New studies have reexamined the evidence and found it wanting. This Element offers a critical assessment of the theories of newborn imitation and the stakes involved.

Newborn imitation has recently become the focus of a major controversy in the human sciences. New studies have reexamined the evidence and found it wanting. Imitation has been regarded as a crucial capability of neonates ever since 1977, when two American psychologists first published experiments appearing to demonstrate that babies at birth are able to copy a variety of facial movements. The findings overturned decades of assumptions about the competence of newborns. But what if claims for newborn imitation are not true? Influential theories about the mechanisms underlying imitation, the role of mirror neurons, the nature of the self and of infant mental states, will all have to be modified or abandoned if it turns out that babies cannot imitate at birth. This Element offers a critical assessment of those theories and the stakes involved.

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