Imitation in infancy
By: edited by Jacqueline Nadel and George Butterworth
Series: Cambridge studies in cognitive and perceptual development; Cambridge studies in cognitive perceptual development
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521181372
Subjects: Interpersonal communication in infants; Developmental psychology; Imitation in children
Notes: Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : immediate imitation rehabilitated at last / Jacqueline Nadel and George Butterworth; title: Persons and representation : why infant imitation is important for theories of human development / Andrew N. Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore; title: Genesis and development of early infant mimesis to facial and vocal models / Giannis Kugiumutzakis; title: Neonatal imitation : existence, mechanisms and motives / George Butterworth; title: Evolutionary foundations of imitation : social, cognitive and developmental aspects of imitative processes in non-human primates / Kim A. Bard and Connie L. Russell; title: What infants' imitations communicate : with mothers, with fathers and with peers / Colwyn Trevarthen, Theano Kokkinaki and Geraldo A. Fiamenghi, Jr.; title: Imitation as activity : its developmental aspects / Ina Č. Užgiris; title: The evolving nature of imitation as a format for communication / Jacqueline Nadel [and others]; title: Neonatal imitation and imitation among children with autism and Down's syndrome / Mikael Heimann and Ea Ullstadius; title: An examination of the imitation deficit in autism / Sally J. Rogers.