Joint attention : new developments in psychology, philosophy of mind, and social neuroscience / edited by Axel Seemann.
2011
BF323.J63
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Title
Joint attention : new developments in psychology, philosophy of mind, and social neuroscience / edited by Axel Seemann.
ISBN
9780262303729 (digital)
0262303728 (digital)
9780262016827 (print)
0262016826
0262303728 (digital)
9780262016827 (print)
0262016826
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 493 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
9780262303729
Call Number
BF323.J63
Dewey Decimal Classification
153.7/33
Summary
Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention -- the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature -- has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what joint attention is, how it ought to be characterized, and what exactly its significance consists in. The writers for this volume address these and related questions by drawing on a variety of disciplines, including developmental and comparative psychology, philosophy of mind, and social neuroscience. The volume organizes their contributions along three main themes: definitional concerns, such as the question of whether or not joint attention should be understood as an irreducibly basic state of mind; processes and mechanisms obtaining on both the neural and behavioral levels; and the functional significance of joint attention, in particular the role it plays in comprehending spatial perspectives and understanding other minds. The collected papers present new work by leading researchers on one of the key issues in social cognition. They demonstrate that an adequate theory of joint attention is indispensable for a comprehensive account of mind.
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Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention -- the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature -- has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what joint attention is, how it ought to be characterized, and what exactly its significance consists in. The writers for this volume address these and related questions by drawing on a variety of disciplines, including developmental and comparative psychology, philosophy of mind, and social neuroscience. The volume organizes their contributions along three main themes: definitional concerns, such as the question of whether or not joint attention should be understood as an irreducibly basic state of mind; processes and mechanisms obtaining on both the neural and behavioral levels; and the functional significance of joint attention, in particular the role it plays in comprehending spatial perspectives and understanding other minds. The collected papers present new work by leading researchers on one of the key issues in social cognition. They demonstrate that an adequate theory of joint attention is indispensable for a comprehensive account of mind.
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Seemann, Axel, 1969-
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