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Preface: Immediate imitation rehabilitated at last George Butterworthand Jacqueline Nadel; Part I. Imitation in Human Infancy: 1. Personsand representation: why infant imitation is important for theories ofhuman development Andrew N. Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore; 2. Developmentof early infant imitation to facial and vocal models GiannisKugiumutzakis; Part II. Imitation: Theoretical issues in phylogeny andontogeny: 3. Neonatal imitation: existence, mechanisms, motives GeorgeButterworth; 4. Evolutionary foundations of imitation: social,cognitive and developmental aspects of imitative processes in non-humanprimates Kim Bard and Connie L. Russell; Part III. Social motives forimitation in infancy: Imitation as a matching motive system between twobrains Colwyn Trevarthen, Theano Kokkinaki and Gerald A. Fiamenghi Jr;6. Imitation as activity: its developmental aspect Ina Uzgiris; PartIV. Imitation, communication and developmental psychopathology: 7. Theevolving nature of imitation as a format for communication JacquelineNadel, Caroline Guirini, Anne Peze and Christine Rivet; 8. Imitationand developmental disabilities Mickael Heimann and Eva Ullstadius; 9.An examination of the imitation deficit in autism Sally J. Rogers.