The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases: 6 (Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development, Series Number 6) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521806852 ISBN 13: 9780521806855

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This 2002 volume provides a summary of the research on imitation in both Europe and America.

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Andrew N. Meltzoff studied psychology at Harvard and Oxford (D. Phil. 1976). He has been a full professor at the University of Washington since 1988. In 2000 he was named Director of the UW Center for Mind, Brain and Learning. Meltzoff is the recipient of a National Institute of Health Merit Award for outstanding research. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and a foreign member of the Norwegian National Academy of Science and Letters. He is the co-author of Words, Thoughts and Theories (1997) and The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us about the Mind (1999). Wolfgang Prinz studied Psychology, Philosophy and Zoology at the University of Muenster, Germany. He took his Ph.D. in 1970 at the Dept. of Psychology at the University of Bielefeld (1975-1990) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (1990-1998). Since 1990 he is the Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich. He has published empirical and theoretical work on perception, action, consciousness and attention as well as on the history of psychology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521806852
• ISBN 13: 9780521806855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Meltzoff Andrew N., Prinz Wolfgang