Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience

by Zelazo; Philip David

• ISBN13: 9781841697673
• ISBN10: 1841697672
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136647987
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-08
• Publisher: Psychology Pres
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Summary

This volume in the JPS Series is intended to help crystallize the emergence of a new field, "Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience," aimed at elucidating the neural correlates of the development of socio-emotional experience and behavior. No one any longer doubts that infants are born with a biologically based head start in accomplishing their important life tasksgenetic resources, if you will, that are exploited differently in different contexts. Nevertheless, it is also true that socially relevant neural functions develop slowly during childhood and that this development is owed to complex interactions among genes, social and cultural environments, and children's own behavior. A key challenge lies in finding appropriate ways of describing these complex interactions and the way in which they unfold in real developmental time. This is the challenge that motivates research in developmental social cognitive neuroscience. The chapters in this book highlight the latest and best research in this emerging field, and they cover a range of topics, including the typical and atypical development of imitation, impulsivity, novelty seeking, risk taking, self and social awareness, emotion regulation, moral reasoning, and executive function. Also addressed are the potential limitations of a neuroscientific approach to the development of social cognition. Intended for researchers and advanced students in neuroscience and developmental, cognitive, and social psychology, this book is appropriate for graduate seminars and upper-level undergraduate courses on social cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, social development, and cognitive development.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction
The Birth and Early Development of a New Discipline: Developmental So0cial Cognitive Neuroscience	p. 3
The Typical and Atypical Development of Social Cognition in Childhood
Motor Cognition: Role of the Motor System in the Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Social Cognition and Its Relevance for the Understanding of Autism	p. 13
The Construction of Commonsense Psychology in Infancy	p. 43
Theory of Mind and Executive Functioning: A Developmental Neuropsychological Approach	p. 63
The Development of Iterative Reprocessing: Implications for Affect and Its Regulation	p. 81
Brain Mechanisms in the Typical and Atypical Development of Social Cognition	p. 99
Autism and the Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) Theory	p. 125
Social Cognition in Adolescence
The Neural Foundations of Evaluative Self- Knowledge in Middle Childhood, Early Adolescence, and Adulthood	p. 141
Neurodevelopment Underlying Adolescent Behavior: A Neurobiological Model	p. 165
The Terrible Twelves	p. 191
Paradoxes in Adolescent Risk Taking	p. 209
Between Neurons and Neighborhoods: Innovative Methods to Assess the Development and Depth of Adolescent Social Awareness	p. 227
The Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Reasoning
Crucial Developmental Role of Prefrontal Cortical Systems in Social Cognition and Moral Maturation: Evidence From Early Prefrontal Lesions and fMRI	p. 251
Contributions of Neuroscience to the Understanding of Moral Reasoning and its Development	p. 269
Is a Neuroscience of Morality Possible?	p. 289
The Relevance of Moral Epistemology and Psychology for Neuroscience	p. 313
Author Index	p. 333
Subject Index	p. 351
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