Discovering the Social Mind - Selected Works of Christopher D. Frith

List of contents

1. Consciousness, information processing and schizophrenia 2. Experiences of alien control in schizophrenia reflect a disorder in the central monitoring of action 3. Elective affinities in schizophrenia and childhood autism 4. Abnormalities in the awareness and control of action 5. Explaining delusions of control: The comparator model 20 years on 6. Willed action and the prefrontal cortex in man: a study with PET 7. The neural correlates of conscious experience: an experimental framework 8. What's at the top in the top-down control of action? Script-sharing and 'top-top' control of action in cognitive experiments 9. Action, agency and responsibility 10. Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition 11. The role of gaze in dialogue 12. Predictive coding: an account of the mirror neuron system 13. Optimally interacting minds 14. Supra-Personal Cognitive Control and Metacognition

About the author

Christopher D. Frith is a Psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, UK.

Summary

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher D. Frith, Frith Christopher D.
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2023
• EAN: 9781032477213
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247721-3
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: World Library of Psychologists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology