Table of Contents

Foreword Sue Taylor Parker; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I. Historical, Developmental and Comparative Overviews: 1. Imaginative animals, pretending children Robert W. Mitchell; 2. A history of pretense in animals and children Robert W. Mitchell; 3. Pretending as representation: a developmental and comparative view Lorraine McCune and Joanne Agayoff; Part II. Pretense and Imagination in Children: 4. Language in pretense in the second year: what it can tell us about 'pretending' in pretense and the 'know-how' about the mind Edy Veneziano; 5. A longitudinal and cross-sectional study of the emergence of the symbolic function in children between 15 and 19 months of age: pretend play, object permanence understanding and self-recognition Pierre-Marie Baudonnière, Sylvie Margules, Soumeya Belkhenchir, Gwénnaelle Carn, Florence Pèpe and Véronique Warkentin; 6. Caregiver-child social pretend play: what transpires? Robert D. Kavanaugh; 7. Just through the looking-glass: children's understanding of pretense Angeline Lillard; 8. Young children's understanding of pretense and other fictional mental states Jacqueline D. Woolley; 9. Pretend play, metarepresentation and theory of mind Peter K. Smith; 10. Replica toys, stories and a functional theory of mind Greta G. Fein, Lynn D. Darling and Lois A. Groth; 11. Young children's animal-role pretend play Olin Eugene Myers Jr.; 12. Imaginary companions and elaborate fantasy in childhood: discontinuity with nonhuman animals Marjorie Taylor and Stephanie M. Carlson; Part III. Pretense and Imagination in Primates: 13. Pretending in monkeys Anne Zeller; 14. Pretending primates: play and simulation in the evolution of primate societies Peter C. Reynolds; 15. Representational capacities for pretense with scale models and photographs in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Sarah T. Boysen and Valerie A. Kuhlmeier; 16. Pretending in free-ranging rehabilitant orangutans Anne E. Russon; 17. Seeing with the mind's eye: eye-covering play in orangutans and Japanese macaques Anne E. Russon, Paul L. Vasey and Carole Gauthier; 18. Possible precursors of pretend play in nonpretend actions of captive gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) Juan Carlos Gómez and Beatriz Martín-Andrade; 19. Pretending culture: social and cognitive features of pretense in apes and humans Warren P. Roberts and Mark A. Krause; 20. Empathy in a bonobo Ellen J. Ingmanson; 21. Pretend play in a signalling gorilla Marilyn L. Matevia, Francine G. P. Patterson and William A. Hillix; Part IV. Prospects: 22. Exploring pretense in animals and children Robert W. Mitchell; References; Index.