The Mirror and the Mind : A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences /

How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awarenessSince the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects-humans, infants, animals, and robots-in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possib...

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Autor principal: Guenther, Katja (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Colección:Princeton Modern Knowledge ; 2
Temas:
SCIENCE / History.
Activation.
Ambiguity.
Analogy.
Anosognosia.
Anthropologist.
Archivist.
Art director.
Behaviorism.
Body image.
Brain Wave.
Brain in a vat.
Child development.
Cognitive science.
Cognitive therapy.
Consciousness.
Critique.
Cybernetics.
Description.
Digestion.
Dispensary.
Electroencephalography.
Emotion.
Empathy.
Experiment.
Eyelid.
Hairstyle.
Hall of Mental Cultivation.
Historiography.
Horoscope.
Human brain.
Human science.
Indoctrination.
Infant.
Inner Experience.
Institution.
Janet Currie.
Johns Hopkins.
Journal of Communication.
Journal of Neurophysiology.
Living Brain.
Margaret Lock.
Margaret Mead.
Marshall McLuhan.
Materialism.
Media studies.
Medium theory.
Mental process.
Metaphysics.
Mirror box.
Mirror image.
Mirror neuron.
Mirror stage.
Mirror test.
Mirror world.
Mirror.
Mirroring (psychology).
Motor control.
Motor cortex.
Neurology.
Neuron.
Neurophysiology.
Neuroscience.
Observation.
Ontology.
Operationalization.
Perception.
Philosophy of language.
Photography.
Prediction.
Premotor cortex.
Proceedings.
Proprioception.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychodrama.
Psychologist.
Psychology.
Psychopathy.
Publication.
Scientist.
Sensory system.
Social theory.
Sojourners.
Sources of the Self.
Stimulation.
Stimulus (physiology).
Stochastic.
Symptom.
Theory of mind.
Therapy.
Thought.
Transference.
Understanding Media.
Uniqueness.
Visual anthropology.
Visual arts.
Visual cortex.
Visual culture.
Visual system.
Wilhelm Wundt.
Writing.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Peripatetic Practices
  • Part I Identifications
  • 1 My Child in the Mirror: The Rise of the Mirror Self-Recognition Test
  • 2 "Not Suddenly, but by Degrees": Child Psychology, Gender, and the Ambiguity of the Mirror
  • 3 The Dancing Robot: Grey Walter's Cybernetic Mirror
  • 4 Monkeys, Mirrors, and Me: Gordon Gallup and the Study of Self-Recognition
  • Interlude
  • Part II Misidentifications
  • 5 The Mirror Test That Never Happened: Lacan, the Ego, and the Symbolic
  • 6 There Are No Mirrors in New Guinea: Edmund S. Carpenter and the Question of "Tribal Man"
  • 7 Diseases of the Body Image and the Ambiguous Mirror
  • 8 Imperfect Reflections: Mirror Neurons, Emotion, and Cognition
  • Conclusion: Failing the Test
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Archival Documents
  • Index

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