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Children --- Imitation in children. --- Language acquisition. --- Language.

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Par imitation on entend l'établissement d'une correspondance entre des perceptions actuelles ou représentées et des productions motrices dans un but d'acquisition ou de communication. Cette capacité est devenue récemment un sujet d'étude en sciences cognitives, ainsi qu'un sujet d'intérêt commun entre philosophes, neurobiologistes et roboticiens. L'objectif de cet ouvrage est d'examiner les relations entre imitation, représentations motrices et intentionnalité. Ces trois concepts recouvrent des processus de traitement de l'information qui s'articulent les uns aux autres et sont à l'origine de nombreux travaux expérimentaux interdisciplinaires actuels.

Imitation. --- Imitation in children. --- Child psychology. --- Robots.

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Autism in children --- Imitation in children --- Identification (Psychology) in children

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Imitation in children --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Social interaction in children

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Newborn imitation has recently become the focus of a major controversy in the human sciences. New studies have reexamined the evidence and found it wanting. Imitation has been regarded as a crucial capability of neonates ever since 1977, when two American psychologists first published experiments appearing to demonstrate that babies at birth are able to copy a variety of facial movements. The findings overturned decades of assumptions about the competence of newborns. But what if claims for newborn imitation are not true? Influential theories about the mechanisms underlying imitation, the role of mirror neurons, the nature of the self and of infant mental states, will all have to be modified or abandoned if it turns out that babies cannot imitate at birth. This Element offers a critical assessment of those theories and the stakes involved.

Imitation in children. --- Newborn infants. --- Infants (Newborn) --- Neonates --- Newborns (Infants) --- Infants --- Neonatology --- Child psychology