Table of Contents

Contents
Preface - Frans B. M. de Waal and Pier Francesco Ferrari
1. A Bottom-Up Approach to the Primate Mind - Frans B. M. de Waal and Pier Francesco Ferrari
Section One: From Understanding of the Actions of Others to Culture
2. The Mirror Neuron System in Monkeys and Its Implications for Social Cognitive Functions - Pier Francesco Ferrari and Leonardo Fogassi
3. The Human Mirror Neuron System and Its Role in Imitation and Empathy - Marco Iacoboni
4. Social Rules and Body Scheme - Naotaka Fujii and Atsushi Iriki
5. What, Whom, and How: Selectivity in Social Learning - Ludwig Huber
6. Learning How to Forage: Socially Biased Individual Learning and “Niche Construction” in Wild Capuchin Monkeys - Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Fragaszy
7. Social Learning and Culture in Child and Chimpanzee - Lydia M. Hopper, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, and Andrew Whiten
Section Two: Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Cooperation
8. A Bottom-Up View of Empathy - Frans B. M. de Waal
9. What Does the Primate Mind Know about Other Minds? A Review of Primates’ Understanding of Visual Attention - April M. Ruiz and Laurie R. Santos
10. Human Empathy through the Lens of Psychology and Social Neuroscience - Tania Singer and Grit Hein
11. How Much of Our Cooperative Behavior Is Human? - Brian Hare and Jingzhi Tan
12. Fetal Testosterone in Mind: Human Sex Differences and Autism - Bonnie Auyeung and Simon Baron-Cohen
Section Three: Memory, Emotions, and Communication
13. The Role of Broca’s Area in Socio-Communicative Processes of Chimpanzees - William D. Hopkins and Jared P. Taglialatela
14. Emotional Engagement: How Chimpanzee Minds Develop - Kim A. Bard
15. Distress Alleviation in Monkeys and Apes: A Window into the Primate Mind? - Filippo Aureli and Orlaith N. Fraser
16. Enquiries Concerning Chimpanzee Understanding - Charles R. Menzel and Emil W. Menzel Jr.
17. What Is Uniquely Human? A View from Comparative Cognitive Development in Humans and Chimpanzees - Tetsuro Matsuzawa
References
Contributors
Index