Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. An interdisciplinary introduction to the imitative mind and brain Wolfgang Prinz and Andrew N. Meltzoff

Part II. Developmental and Evolutionary Approaches to Imitation: 2. Building blocks for a developmental theory of imitation Andrew N. Meltzoff

3. Imitation and imitation recognition: functional use in preverbal infants and nonverbal children with autism Jacqueline Nadel

4. Self-awareness, other-awareness, and secondary representation Jens B. Asendorpf

5. Notes on individual differences and the assumed elusiveness of neonatal imitation Mikael Heimann

6. Ego function of early imitation Philippe Rochat

7. The imitator's representation of the imitated: ape and child A. Whiten

8. Seeing actions as hierarchically organised structures: great ape manual skills Richard W. Byrne

Part III. Cognitive Approaches to Imitation, Body Scheme, and Perception-action Coding: 9. Experimental approaches to imitation Wolfgang Prinz

10. Imitation: common mechanisms in the observation and execution of finger and mouth movements Harold Bekkering

11. Goal-directed imitation Merideth Gattis, Harold Bekkering, and Andreas Wolschlä

ger

12. Visuomotor couplings in object-orientated and imitative actions Stefan Vogt

13. On bodies and events Barbara Tversky, Julie Bauer Morrison and Jeff Zacks

14. What is the body schema? Catherine L. Reed

Part IV. Neuroscience Underpinnings of Imitation and Apraxia: 15. From mirror neurons to imitation: facts and speculations Giacomo Rizzolatti, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi, and Vittorio Gallese

16. Cell populations in the banks of the superior temporal sulcus of the macaque and imitation T. Jellema, C. I. Baker, M. W. Oram, and D. I. Perrett

17. Is there such a thing as a functional equivalence between imagined, observed, and executed action? Jean Decety

18. The role of imitation in body ownership and mental growth Marcel Kinsbourne

19. Imitation, apraxia, and hemisphere dominance Georg Goldenberg and Joachim Hermsdö

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