This volume brings the current interest in primate cognition to bear on studies of cognitive development in humans, with chapters from leading researchers in both areas. For cognitive developmentalists and primatologists and comparative psychologists.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Preface. J. Langer, M. Killen, The Comparative Study of Mental Development. Part I: Cognitive Development. M. L. McKinney, Cognitive Evolution by Extending Brain Development: On Recapitulation, Progress, and Other Heresies. J. Langer, Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Origins of Cognition: Classification. F. Y. Doré , S. Goulet, The Comparative Analysis of Object Knowledge. A. Whiten, Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of the Mindreading System. Part II: Social Development. A. E. Russon, R. W. Mitchell, L. Lefebvre, E. Abravanel, The Comparative Evolution of Imitation. S. Savage-Rumbaugh, Scientific Schizophrenia With Regard to the Language Act. S. T. Parker, The Evolution and Development of Self-Knowledge: Adaptations for Assessing the Nature of Self Relative to That of Conspecifics. M. Cords, M. Killen, Conflict Resolution in Human and Nonhuman Primates. Part III: Cultural Development. M. Tomasello, Social Cognition and the Evolution of Culture. P. Damerow, Prehistory and Cognitive Development. E. Turiel, Notes From the Underground: Culture, Conflict, and Subversion.
