| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 201 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Prologue -- References -- Part I: From the Social Infant to the Verbal Child: Insights from Imitation -- Chapter 2: A Fresh Look on Neonatal Imitation -- Is There a Capacity to Imitate at Birth? -- Defining Neonatal Imitation -- Neonatal Imitation Among Typical Children -- Using the Mother as the Model -- Imitation at Birth and the First 3 Months of Life -- A Note on Lip Protrusion -- Do Temporal Aspects Influence Neonatal Imitation? -- Achieving Reasonable Matching Although Many Systems Are Immature -- References |
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Chapter 3: Neonatal Imitation and Children with Autism or Down Syndrome -- Motivation and Theoretical Background -- Searching for Studies on Neonatal Imitation and Atypical Development -- Neonatal Imitation in a Child That Later Developed Autism -- Home Video Observation -- Near-Neonatal Imitation in Infants with Down Syndrome -- An Attempt to Sum Up: Suggesting an Updated Model -- References -- Chapter 4: Imitation at Birth and Then What? -- Neonatal Imitation and Early Mother-Infant Interaction -- Neonatal Imitation and Imitation Later in the First Year |
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Imitation Across Time and Dimensions: Following Children from 9 to 36 Months -- Procedure -- Results for Immediate and Deferred Imitation -- Results for Facial Imitation -- Individual Response Patterns for Facial Imitation -- Is There Stability in Imitation Across Ages and Dimensions? -- References -- Chapter 5: Imitation and Temperament in Infancy -- A Personal Starting Point -- Why Temperament? -- Facial Imitation and Temperament at 3 Months of Life -- Early Imitation and Temperament: Sample 1 -- Early Imitation and Temperament: Sample 2 |
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Facial Imitation and Temperament Beyond Infancy up to 3 Years of Age -- An Attempt to Tie It All Together -- References -- Part II: Memory and Imitation in Infancy -- Chapter 6: A Window into the Preverbal Child's Mind -- Deferred Imitation and Our Memory Systems -- A Note on Infantile Amnesia -- Deferred Imitation and Then What? -- Memory and Electrophysiology -- A Bit More on the Method Used in Our 2015 Study -- A Bit on What We Found -- References -- Chapter 7: A Rational Mind? -- Imitation of Novel Acts from Memory: Are Rational Processes Involved? -- General Method and Procedure |
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Deferred and Rational Imitation in an Unfamiliar Setting -- Unfamiliar setting: What We Found -- Deferred and Rational Imitation in Familiar Settings -- Familiar Setting: What We Found -- Collapsing the Two Experiments -- Aiming for an Integrative Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Imitation: A Vehicle for Change for Children with Autism -- Chapter 8: Is Imitation an Obstacle for Children with Autism? -- Is Autism Today and Yesterday the Same Thing? -- A Note on Imitation Training in the Early Years: A Historical Perspective -- How I Entered the Field |
| Summary |
This book summarizes more than four decades of research on imitation in infancy and its relation to early learning and sociocognitive development in typically and atypically developing children. The studies were carried out in a Scandinavian context and thus provide important cultural validation of the central developmental processes. The book is divided into three parts: Part one focuses on the social and cognitive aspects of imitation, discussing links to early parent-infant interaction, and developmental meaning. It addresses evidence for an imitative capacity at birth for typical and atypical infants. Also covered are early individual differences in imitation, the role of imitation as a social and cognitive learning mechanism in early development, and possible links between imitation and temperament. Part two presents unique longitudinal studies on early memory development using deferred imitation as the key method. It discusses the biological basis of memory and explores the idea that deferred imitation is an indicator of an infants ability to understand intentions. Part three focuses on imitation in young children with autism and with Down syndrome. It examines the role of imitation as a "deficit" as well as a vehicle for change when used interactively in early interventions for children with autism. Imitation from Infancy Through Early Childhood is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and other professionals in developmental psychology, cognitive development, psycholinguistics, child psychiatry, and developmental neuroscience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 14, 2022) |
| Subject |
Imitation.
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Child psychology.
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Infant psychology.
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Infants -- Development.
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Child psychology
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Imitation
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Infant psychology
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Infants -- Development
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Imitació.
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Psicologia infantil.
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Desenvolupament infantil.
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| Genre/Form |
Llibres electrònics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031088995 |
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3031088999 |
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