Social Cognition Development, Neuroscience

How we perceive and interpret the actions of others is crucial if we are to develop into healthy adults. It has even been argued that a lack of social cognitive skills lays a strong foundation for a variety of atypical developmental disorders, including autism. Fortunately, our understanding of how humans process and interpret each other's actions has increased by leaps and bounds in the past decade. At the vanguard of these encouraging developments has been groundbreaking research in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and autism. Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism is the first volume to fully integrate these areas of cutting-edge research on social cognition through contributions from some of the world's foremost experts in all three disciplines. The text is edited by distinguished development specialists who preface each section with chapter by chapter summaries that seamlessly link each of the contributing essays. Sections include related chapters on perspectives on social cognition, social cognition during infancy, social cognition and the adult brain, and social cognition: the challenge of autism. The text's final section serves as a commentary highlighting the fundamental issues that have been addressed in the text. Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism is an indispensable addition to the rapidly expanding field of social cognition--and will provide valuable new insights on how we think and learn.

Tricia Striano is Associate Professor of Psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is specialist of social and cognitive development in early infancy. Striano is author of over 70 publications and recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation www.infancy-research.com.

Vincent Reid is a lecturer in psychology at Durham University, England. He has authored numerous papers on the topics of the perception of human action by infants and related neural correlates in the social-cognitive domain, from biological motion detection to goal anticipation.

List of Figures and Tables	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. x
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Research and Social Cognition	p. 1
Social Cognition at the Crossroads: Perspectives on Understanding Others	p. 3
Research Methodology and Social Cognition	p. 17
Cognitive Neuroscience	p. 35
Editors' Introduction	p. 37
Do Adolescents Simulate? Developmental Studies of the Human Mirror Neuron System	p. 39
The Inhibition of Imitative Behavior and Attribution of Mental States	p. 52
Social Perception: Understanding Other People's Intentions and Emotions through their Actions	p. 67
Development of the Social Brain during Adolescence	p. 79
How do we Understand Others' Intentions? An Attentional Investigation	p. 90
Social Cognition during Infancy	p. 109
Editors' Introduction	p. 111
Memories for Events in Infants: Goal-Relevant Action Coding	p. 113
The Interchange of Self-Performed Actions and Perceived Actions in Infants	p. 129
Tools and Goals: A Social-Cognition Perspective on Infant Learning of Object Function	p. 144
The Directed Attention Model of Infant Social Cognition: Further Evidence	p. 157
Reading Faces in Infancy: Developing a Multi-Level Analysis of a Social Stimulus	p. 167
The Perception of Emotional Expressions during Infancy	p. 181
Social Cognition: The Challenge of Autism	p. 197
Editors' Introduction	p. 199
Face and Gaze Processing in Autism	p. 201
Beyond Social Perception: The Case of Autism	p. 216
The Role of Looking in Social Cognition: Perspectives from Development and Autism	p. 237
What Does the Study of Autism Tell us about the Craft of Folk Psychology?	p. 254
The Other End of the Spectrum? Social Cognition in Williams Syndrome	p. 281
Commentaries	p. 301
Commentary: Mutual Recognition as a Foundation of Sociality and Social Comfort	p. 303
Commentary on Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience, and Autism	p. 318
Commentary: How Social is Social Cognition?	p. 323
Author Index	p. 330
Subject Index	p. 344
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