The Social Brain: A Developmental Perspective

A range of empirical and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between biology and social cognition from infancy through childhood.

Recent research on the developmental origins of the social mind supports the view that social cognition is present early in infancy and childhood in surprisingly sophisticated forms. Developmental psychologists have found ingenious ways to test the social abilities of infants and young children, and neuroscientists have begun to study the neurobiological ...