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Title

Self-awareness in animals and humans : developmental perspectives / edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Robert W. Mitchell and Maria Boccia.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Boccia, Maria.
• Mitchell, Robert W., 1958-
• Parker, Sue Taylor.

Description

xviii, 442 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Are human infants born with an innate sense of self? How does that sense of self change as they develop? How do great apes compare to human infants and children in their sense of self? Are they capable of embarrassment? What kind of self-awareness do monkeys have? Do they recognize their own images in mirrors? Do dolphins? Do pigeons? These are some of the many questions addressed in Self-awareness in Animals and Humans, a collection of original articles on self-awareness in monkeys, apes, humans, and other species, including dolphins. This volume, which grew out of an interdisciplinary conference on self-awareness, focuses on controversies about how to measure self-awareness, which species are capable of self-awareness and which are not, and why. Several articles focus on the controversial question of whether gorillas, like other great apes and human infants, are capable of mirror self-recognition (MSR) or whether they are anomalously unable to do so. Other articles focus on whether macaque monkeys are capable of MSR. Various contributors present competing theories about which abilities accompany and underlie MSR and which capacities underlie developmentally earlier forms of self-detection in human infants. The focus of the articles is both comparative and developmental: Several contributions explore the value of frameworks from human developmental psychology for comparative studies. In particular, various contributors present differing opinions concerning the relationship between MSR and object permanence, imitation, and theory of mind. This dual focus - comparative and developmental - reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the volume, which brings together biological anthropologists, comparative and developmental psychologists, and cognitive scientists from Japan, France, Spain, Hungary, New Zealand, Scotland, and the United States.

Subject

• Behavior, Animal
• Developmental psychology > Congresses
• Human Development
• Psychology, Comparative
• Psychology, Comparative > Congresses
• Self Concept
• Self-perception > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congress

Note

• Papers presented at a conference on self-awareness in monkeys, apes, and humans, held 1991, at Sonoma State University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Expanding dimensions of the self: through the looking glass and beyond? / Sue Taylor Parker, Robert W. Mitchell, and Maria L. Boccia -- Myself and me / Michael Lewis -- Self-recognition: research strategies and experimental design / Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. -- From self-recognition to theory of mind / György Gergely -- Mutual awareness in primate communication: a Gricean approach / Juan Carlos Gómez -- Multiplicities of self / Robert W. Mitchell -- Contributions of imitation and role-playing games to the construction of self in primates / Sue Taylor Parker and Constance Milbrath -- Detection of self: the perfect algorithm / John S. Watson -- Social imitation and the emergence of a mental model of self / Daniel Hart and Suzanne Fegley -- Minds, bodies and persons: young children's understanding of the self and others as reflected in imitation and theory of mind research / Alison Gopnik and Andrew N. Meltzoff.
• Social and cognitive factors in chimpanzee and gorilla mirror behavior and self-recognition / Karyl B. Swartz and Siân Evans -- The comparative and developmental study of self-recognition and imitation: the importance of social factors / Deborah Custance and Kim. A. Bard -- Shadows and mirrors: alternative avenues to the development of self-recognition in chimpanees / Sarah T. Boysen, Kirstan M. Bryan, and Traci A. Shreyer -- Symbolic representation of possession in a chimpanzee / Shoji Itakura -- Self-awareness in bonobos and chimpanzees: a comparative perspective / Charles W. Hyatt and William D. Hopkins -- ME CHANTEK: the development of self-awareness in a signing orangutan / H. Lyn White Miles -- Self-recognition and self-awareness in lowland gorillas / Francine G.P. Patterson adn Ronald H. Cohn -- How to create self-recognizing gorillas (but don't try it on macaques) / Daniel J. Povinelli -- Incipient mirror self-recognition in zoo gorillas and chimpanzees / Sue Taylor Parker -- Do gorillas recognize themselves on television? / Lindsay E. Law and Andrew J. Lock.
• The monkey in the mirror: a strange conspecific / James R. Anderson -- The question of mirror-mediated self-recognition in apes and monkeys: some new results and reservations / Robert L. Thompson and Susan L. Boatright-Horowitz -- Mirror behavior in macaques / Maria L. Boccia -- Evidence of self-awareness in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) / Kenneth Marten and Suchi Psarakos -- Mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins: implications for comparative investigations of highly dissimilar species / Lori Marino, Diana Reiss, and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. -- Further reflections on mirror-usage by pigeons: lessons from Winnie-the-Pooh and Pinocchio too / Roger K.R. Thompson and Cynthia L. Contie -- Evolving self-awareness / Sue Taylor Parker and Robert W. Mitchell.

ISBN

0521441080

LCCN

^^^93024656^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library