1st Edition

Discovering the Social Mind Selected works of Christopher D. Frith

By Christopher D. Frith Copyright 2017
276 Pages
by Psychology Press

276 Pages
by Psychology Press

276 Pages
by Psychology Press

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. Christopher D. Frith has an international reputation as an eminent scholar and pioneer in the fields of schizophrenia,... Read more

1. Consciousness, information processing and schizophrenia  2. Experiences of alien control in schizophrenia reflect a disorder in the central monitoring of action  3. Elective affinities in schizophrenia and childhood autism  4. Abnormalities in the awareness and control of action  5. Explaining delusions of control: The comparator model 20 years on  6. Willed action and the prefrontal cortex in man: a study with PET  7. The neural correlates of conscious experience: an experimental framework  8. What's at the top in the top-down control of action? Script-sharing and 'top-top' control of action in cognitive experiments  9. Action, agency and responsibility  10. Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition  11. The role of gaze in dialogue  12. Predictive coding: an account of the mirror neuron system  13. Optimally interacting minds  14. Supra-Personal Cognitive Control and Metacognition

Biography

Christopher D. Frith is a Psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, UK.