Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans: Developmental Perspectives

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Pub. Date: 2006-05-11
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Summary

Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans, a collection of original articles on self-awareness in monkeys, apes, humans, and other species, focuses on controversies about how to measure self-awareness, which species are capable of self-awareness and which are not, and why. Several chapters 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 chapters focus on whether macaque monkeys are capable of MSR. The focus of the chapters is both comparative and developmental: several contributors explore the value of frameworks from human developmental psychology for comparative studies. 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.

Table of Contents

Contributors viii
Foreword, by Louis J. Moses x
Acknowledgments xvii
Note added in proof xviii
Part I Comparative and Developmental Approaches to Self-awareness 1(128)
1 Expanding dimensions of the self: Through the looking glass and beyond
3(17)
Sue Taylor Parker, Robert W. Mitchell, and Maria L. Boccia
2 Myself and me
20(15)
Michael Lewis
3 Self-recognition: Research strategies and experimental design
35(16)
Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.
4 From self-recognition to theory of mind
51(10)
György Gergely
5 Mutual awareness in primate communication: A Gricean approach
61(20)
Juan Carlos Gómez
6 Multiplicities of self
81(27)
Robert W. Mitchell
7 Contributions of imitation and role-playing games to the construction of self in primates
108(21)
Sue Taylor Parker and Constance Milbrath
Part II The Development of Self in Human Infants and Children 129(58)
8 Detection of self: The perfect algorithm
131(18)
John S. Watson
9 Social imitation and the emergence of a mental model of self
149(17)
Daniel Hart and Suzanne Fegley
10 Minds, bodies and persons: Young children's understanding of the self and others as reflected in imitation and theory of mind research
166(21)
Alison Gopnik and Andrew N. Meltzoff
Part III Self-awareness in Great Apes 187(126)
11 Social and cognitive factors in chimpanzee and gorilla mirror behavior and self-recognition
189(18)
Karyl B. Swartz and Siân Evans
12 The comparative and developmental study of self-recognition and imitation: The importance of social factors
207(20)
Deborah Custance and Kim A. Bard
13 Shadows and mirrors: Alternative avenues to the development of self-recognition in chimpanzees
227(14)
Sarah T. Boysen, Kirstan M. Bryan, and Traci A. Shreyer
14 Symbolic representation of possession in a chimpanzee
241(7)
Shoji Itakura
15 Self-awareness in bonobos and chimpanzees: A comparative perspective
248(6)
Charles W. Hyatt and William D. Hopkins
16 ME CHANTEK: The development of self-awareness in a signing orangutan
254(19)
H. Lyn White Miles
17 Self-recognition and self-awareness in lowland gorillas
273(18)
Francine G.P. Patterson and Ronald H. Cohn
18 How to create self-recognizing gorillas (but don't try it on macaques)
291(10)
Daniel J. Povinelli
19 Incipient mirror self-recognition in zoo gorillas and chimpanzees
301(7)
Sue Taylor Parker
20 Do gorillas recognize themselves on television?
308(5)
Lindsay E. Law and Andrew J. Lock
Part IV Mirrors and Monkeys, Dolphins, and Pigeons 313(98)
21 The monkey in the mirror: A strange conspecific
315(15)
James R. Anderson
22 The question of mirror-mediated self-recognition in apes and monkeys: Some new results and reservations
330(20)
Robert L. Thompson and Susan L. Boatright-Horowitz
23 Mirror behavior in macaques
350(11)
Maria L. Boccia
24 Evidence of self-awareness in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
361(19)
Kenneth Marten and Suchi Psarakos
25 Mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins: Implications for comparative investigations of highly dissimilar species
380(12)
Lori Marino, Diana Reiss, and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.
26 Further reflections on mirror-usage by pigeons: Lessons from Winnie-the-Pooh and Pinocchio too
392(19)
Roger K.R. Thompson and Cynthia L. Contie
Part V Epilogue 411(18)
27 Evolving self-awareness
413(16)
Sue Taylor Parker and Robert W. Mitchell
Author index 429(4)
Subject index 433

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