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Print Price: $176.00

Format:
Hardback
384 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780199988341

Publication date:
September 2013

Imprint: OUP US


Agency and Joint Attention

Edited by Janet Metcalfe, Betsy Sparrow and Herbert S. Terrace

Human infants do not seem to be born with concepts of self or joint attention. One basic goal of Agency and Joint Attention is to unravel how these abilities originate. One approach that has received a lot of recent attention is social. Some argue that by virtue of an infant's intense eye gaze with her mother, she is able, by the age of four months, to establish a relationship with her mother that differentiates between "me" and "you." At about twelve months, the infant acquires the non-verbal ability to share attention with her mother or other caregivers. Although the concepts of self and joint attention are nonverbal and uniquely human, the question remains, how do we establish metacognitive control of these abilities? A tangential question is whether nonhuman animals develop abilities that are analogous to self and joint attention.

Much of this volume is devoted to the development of metacognition of self and joint attention in experiments on the origin of consciousness, knowing oneself, social referencing, joint action, the neurological basis of joint attention, the role of joint action, mirror neurons, phenomenology, and cues for agency.

Readership : Sutiable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology, psychology, evolution, and the philosophy of mind.

Contributors
Herbert Terrace: Introduction
1. Herbert S. Terrace: Becoming Human: Why Two Minds are Better Than One
2. Malinda Carpenter and Josep Call: How Joint Is The Joint Attention Of Apes And Human Infants?
3. Derek C. Penn and Daniel J. Povinelli: The Comparative Delusion: The 'Behavioristic'/ 'Mentalistic' Dichotomy in Comparative Theory Of Mind Research
4. Logan Fletcher and Peter Carruthers: Behavior-Reading Versus Mentalizing In Animals
5. Beatrice Beebe, Sara Markese, Lorraine Bahrick, Frank Lachmann, Karen Buck, Henian Chen, Patricia Cohen, Howard Andrews, and Joseph Jaffe: On Knowing and Being Known in the 4-Month Origins of Disorganized Attachment: An Emerging Presymbolic Theory Of Mind
6. Andrew N. Meltzoff and Rechele Brooks: Gaze Following And Agency In Human Infancy
7. György Gergely: Ostensive Communication and Cultural Learning: The Natural Pedagogy Hypothesis
8. Fabia Franco: Embodied Attention in Infant Pointing
9. Athena Vouloumanos and Kristine H. Onishi: Understanding the Structure of Communicative Interactions in Infancy
10. Vittorio Gallese and Corrado Sinigaglia: Cognition in Action: A New Look at the Cortical Motor System
11. Stefanie Hoehl: Early Sensitivity to Emotion Cues - Precursors of Social Referencing?
12. Anne Böckler and Natalie Sebanz: Linking Joint Attention and Joint Action
13. Elizabeth Redcay and Rebecca Saxe: Do You See What I See? The Neural Bases of Joint Attention
14. Janet Metcalfe: 'Knowing' That the Self is the Agent
15. Robrecht Van Der Wel and Günther Knoblich: Cues To Agency: Time Can Tell
16. Wolfgang Prinz, Christiane Diefenbach, and Anne Springer: The Meaning of Actions: Crosstalk between Procedural and Declarative Action Knowledge
17. Ezequiel Morsella Tanaz Molapour, and Margaret T. Lynn: The Three Pillars of Volition: Phenomenal States, Ideomotor Processing, and The Skeletal Muscle System
18. Sara Steele and Hakwan Lau: The Function of Consciousness in Controlling Behavior
19. Elisabeth Pacherie: Sense of Agency: Many Facets, Multiple Sources

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Janet Metcalfe is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. Betsy Sparrow is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. Herbert S. Terrace is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University.

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Special Features

  • The volume takes on the question of individual autonomy in a social world of coordination and interpersonal responsibility.
  • The chapters discuss how humans keep individual boundaries straight while internalizing, at a neurological level, the actions and thoughts of others.
  • A unique group of cross-disciplinary researchers come together to discuss the development and evolution of human mental processes.