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Informationen zum Autor Frans B. M. de Waal is C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Psychology Department and Director of Living Links, part of the Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University. Pier Francesco Ferrari is Assistant Professor in Biology at the School of Medicine at the Università di Parma, Italy. Klappentext Prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, and primatologists from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation, joint action, and empathy as well as their evolutionary foundations. Zusammenfassung Prominent neuroscientists! psychologists! ethologists! and primatologists from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by investigating how the primate mind connects with other minds and exploring the shared neurological basis for imitation! joint action! and empathy as well as their evolutionary foundations.
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Contents Preface - Frans B. M. de Waal and Pier Francesco Ferrari 1. A Bottom-Up Approach to the Primate Mind - Frans B. M. de Waal and Pier Francesco Ferrari Section One: From Understanding of the Actions of Others to Culture 2. The Mirror Neuron System in Monkeys and Its Implications for Social Cognitive Functions - Pier Francesco Ferrari and Leonardo Fogassi 3. The Human Mirror Neuron System and Its Role in Imitation and Empathy - Marco Iacoboni 4. Social Rules and Body Scheme - Naotaka Fujii and Atsushi Iriki 5. What, Whom, and How: Selectivity in Social Learning - Ludwig Huber 6. Learning How to Forage: Socially Biased Individual Learning and "Niche Construction" in Wild Capuchin Monkeys - Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Fragaszy 7. Social Learning and Culture in Child and Chimpanzee - Lydia M. Hopper, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, and Andrew Whiten Section Two: Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Cooperation 8. A Bottom-Up View of Empathy - Frans B. M. de Waal 9. What Does the Primate Mind Know about Other Minds? A Review of Primates' Understanding of Visual Attention - April M. Ruiz and Laurie R. Santos 10. Human Empathy through the Lens of Psychology and Social Neuroscience - Tania Singer and Grit Hein 11. How Much of Our Cooperative Behavior Is Human? - Brian Hare and Jingzhi Tan 12. Fetal Testosterone in Mind: Human Sex Differences and Autism - Bonnie Auyeung and Simon Baron-Cohen Section Three: Memory, Emotions, and Communication 13. The Role of Broca's Area in Socio-Communicative Processes of Chimpanzees - William D. Hopkins and Jared P. Taglialatela 14. Emotional Engagement: How Chimpanzee Minds Develop - Kim A. Bard 15. Distress Alleviation in Monkeys and Apes: A Window into the Primate Mind? - Filippo Aureli and Orlaith N. Fraser 16. Enquiries Concerning Chimpanzee Understanding - Charles R. Menzel and Emil W. Menzel Jr. 17. What Is Uniquely Human? A View from Comparative Cognitive Development in Humans and Chimpanzees - Tetsuro Matsuzawa References Contributors Index
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Presents an authoritative, surprising and enriching picture of our monkey and ape cousins...The Primate Mind suggests that it may not be the capacity to imitate, but the motivation to do so that sets us apart from other animals. Like all good suggestions, this opens the door to more questions about the mechanisms and evolution of such motivation--and, ultimately, about how our own social minds evolved from the deeply interconnected minds of our primate cousins.
-- Christian Keysers Nature
[The Primate Mind] showcases cutting-edge thinking about primate psychology and neurology...Even for non-specialists, The Primate Mind offers the excitement of seeing science begin to offer concrete answers to such fundamental and ancient human questions.
-- Adam Kirsch Barnes & Noble Review
The research represented in this book clearly pushes the boundaries of what is known about how primates think, feel, and view the world and others around them. Overall, the book provides a wealth of fascinating and intriguing insights into primate minds.
-- S. C. Baker Choice
