Social cognition
Subtitle: development, neuroscience, and autism
By: edited by Tricia Striano and Vincent Reid.
Contributors: Striano, Tricia.; Reid, Vincent.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781405162173
Subjects: Social perception in children; Cognition in children; Cognition in infants; Autism -- Pathophysiology; Cognitive neuroscience; Cognition; Adolescent; Autistic Disorder -- psychology; Child; Infant
Notes: "This edited volume stems from questions and issues that were explored by contributors of the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Person Perception, held in Leipzig, Germany, in June, 2005.  Developmental advances were also presented at the European Developmental Psychology Conference, Dual-Symposium on Person Perception During Infancy in Tenerife in August, 2005."--ECIP summary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social cognition at the crossroads: perspectives on understanding others / Tricia Striano and Vincent Reid; title: Research methodology and social cognition / Vincent Reid and Elena Geangu; title: Do adolescents simulate? developmental studies of the human mirror neuron system / Marco Iacoboni; title: The inhibition of imitative behavior and attribution of mental states / Marcel Brass and Stephanie Spengler; title: Social perception: understanding other people's intentions and emotions through their actions / Julie Grozes and Beatrice de Gelder; title: Development of the social brain during adolescence / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore; title: How do we understand others? intentions? an attentional investigation / Pines Nuku and Harold Bekkering; title: Memories for events in infants: goal-relevant action coding / Ildikó Király; title: The interchange of self-performed actions and perceived actions in infants / Petra Hauf; title: Tools and goals: a social-cognition perspective on infant learning of object function / Birgit Elsner; title: The directed-attention model of infant social cognition: further evidence / Vincent Reid and Tricia Striano; title: Reading faces in infancy: developing a multi-level analysis of a social stimulus / Tobias Grossmann and Amrisha Vaish; title: The perception of emotional expressions during infancy / Stefanie Hoehl; title: Face and gaze processing in autism / Robert Joseph and Helen Tager-Flusberg; title: Beyond social perception: the case of autism / Jessica Hobson and R. Peter Hobson; title: The role of looking in social cognition: perspectives from development and autism / Claes von Hofsten and Gustaf Gredebeck; title: What does the study of autism tell us about the craft of folk psychology? / Richard Griffin and Daniel Dennett; title: The other end of the spectrum? social cognition in Williams Syndrome / Jon Brock, Shiri Einav, and Deborah M. Riby; title: Commentary: mutual recognition as a foundation of sociality and social comfort / Philippe Rochat; title: Commentary on social cognition: development, neuroscience, and autism / Charles Nelson; title: Commentary: how social is social cognition? / Simon Baron-Cohen.; title: Memories for events in infants: goal-relevant action coding / Ildikó Király; title: The interchange of self-performed actions and perceived actions in infants / Petra Hauf; title: Tools and goals: a social-cognition perspective on infant learning of object function / Birgit Elsner; title: The directed-attention model of infant social cognition: further evidence / Vincent Reid and Tricia Striano; title: Reading faces in infancy: developing a multi-level analysis of a social stimulus / Tobias Grossmann and Amrisha Vaish; title: The perception of emotional expressions during infancy / Stefanie Hoehl; title: Face and gaze processing in autism / Robert Joseph and Helen Tager-Flusberg; title: Beyond social perception: the case of autism / Jessica Hobson and R. Peter Hobson; title: The role of looking in social cognition: perspectives from development and autism / Claes von Hofsten and Gustaf Gredebeck; title: What does the study of autism tell us about the craft of folk psychology? / Richard Griffin and Daniel Dennett; title: The other end of the spectrum? social cognition in Williams Syndrome / Jon Brock, Shiri Einav, and Deborah M. Riby; title: Commentary: mutual recognition as a foundation of sociality and social comfort / Philippe Rochat; title: Commentary on social cognition: development, neuroscience, and autism / Charles Nelson; title: Commentary: how social is social cognition? / Simon Baron-Cohen.