Joint attention : new developments in psychology, philosophy of mind, and social neuroscience /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
©2011
Description:1 online resource (viii, 493 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11357749
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Other authors / contributors:Seemann, Axel, 1969-
ISBN:9780262303729
0262303728
9780262016827
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Joint attention. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 9780262016827
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Table of 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.