New Perspectives on Early Social-Cognitive Development

1st Edition, Volume 254 - August 25, 2020
Imprint: Elsevier
Editors: Sabine Hunnius, Marlene Meyer
Language: English
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New Perspectives on Early Social-Cognitive Development, Volume 258 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Dynamics of Coordinated Attention, Investigating the Role of Neural Body Maps in Early Social-Cognitive Development: New Insights from Infant MEG and EEG, Motion tracking in developmental research: Methodological considerations and social-cognitive developmental applications, Early maturation of the social brain: How brain development provides a platform for the acquisition of social-cognitive competence, Getting a grip on early intention understanding: The role of motor, cognitive, and social factors, and much more.

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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1: Studying parent-child interaction with hyperscanning
Abstract
1: Understanding others during social interactions
2: Interacting brains, bodies and minds
3: Hyperscanning methods
4: Challenges to hyperscanning
5: Future directions: The potential of hyperscanning in parent-child interactions
6: Conclusion
Chapter 2: Importance of body representations in social-cognitive development: New insights from infant brain science
Abstract
1: Body representations and social-cognitive development: Insights from infant brain science
2: Centrality of body representations
3: Neural body maps in human infants
4: Lips on the brain: A test in 60-day-old infants
5: Toward an infant body schema: Carving the body at the joints
6: Cross-modal effects for body representations
7: Neural responses to reciprocal imitation social games
8: What infant imitation tells us about body representations
9: Theory: Body representations as building blocks in social cognition
Acknowledgments
Chapter 3: Early maturation of the social brain: How brain development provides a platform for the acquisition of social-cognitive competence
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: The use of MRI in early development
3: The maturation of the social brain
4: Understanding atypical development
5: A model of social-cognitive development based on MRI
6: Conclusion and future directions
Chapter 4: Using head-mounted eye-trackers to study sensory-motor dynamics of coordinated attention
Abstract
1: Eye-tracking methods in infant research
2: Coordinated attention in parent-child interactions
3: Implications
Chapter 5: Motion tracking in developmental research: Methods, considerations, and applications
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Why use motion tracking in developmental research?
3: Types of motion tracking
4: Motion tracking in the developmental literature
5: Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Chapter 6: Getting a grip on early intention understanding: The role of motor, cognitive, and social factors
Abstract
1: Development of intentional action knowledge
2: Motor factors: The role of active experience
3: The need for other factors: Cue-based literature
4: Cognitive factors: Comparison and statistical learning
5: Social factors: Infant-directed modifications facilitate action understanding
6: Social factors: Triadic engagement
7: Conclusions and future directions
Chapter 7: Theory of mind development: State of the science and future directions
Abstract
1: Explicit ToM
2: Is infants' theory of mind robust? The replication crisis
3: Is infants' theory of mind sophisticated?
4: From implicit to explicit ToM
5: Summary and conclusions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 8: How an infant's active response to structured experience supports perceptual-cognitive development
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Mechanisms of active engagement: Definitions
3: Evidence of active engagement with environmental patterns
4: Active engagement shapes perceptual and cognitive development starting in infancy
5: Outstanding questions
6: Summary and conclusions
Chapter 9: Becoming better together: The early development of interpersonal coordination
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Development of interpersonal coordination from infancy to preschool years
3: Social-cognitive processes and neural underpinnings contributing to the development of interpersonal coordination
4: The impact of interpersonal coordination on social development
5: Summary
Chapter 10: The developmental emergence of morality: A review of current theoretical perspectives
Abstract
1: Children become moral agents
2: Theoretical accounts on the ontogenetic emergence of morality
3: Open questions and limitations of the review
Acknowledgments
Chapter 11: Culture and early social-cognitive development
Abstract
1: Culture and early social-cognitive development from a developmental systems perspective
2: Cross-cultural similarities and differences along key developmental milestones
3: Concluding remarks and outlook
Chapter 12: Insights from comparative research on social and cultural learning
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Social learning
3: Teaching
4: Culture
5: Conclusions
Chapter 13: Social attention: What is it, how can we measure it, and what can it tell us about autism and ADHD?
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Observing developmental trajectories in infants at elevated likelihood for ASD and ADHD
3: Bridging the gap between biology and behavior: Early developmental endophenotypes
4: Attention as a developmental endophenotype
5: What attention is and how it typically develops
6: What can we learn about attention from infants with later ASD or ADHD?
7: Conclusions
Acknowledgments

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