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 Baudonniere, Sylvie Margules, Soumeya Belkhenchir, Gwennaelle Carn, Florence Pepe and Veronique 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 Gomez and Beatriz Martin-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.
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