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Understanding other minds : perspectives from developmental social neuroscience
Title:
Understanding other minds : perspectives from developmental social neuroscience
Author:
Baron-Cohen, Simon, editor.
ISBN:
9780191668791
Edition:
Third edition.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 498 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
General Note:
Previous edition: 2000.
Contents:
Early manifestations of mindreading / Learning about the mind from evidence : children's development of intuitive theories of perception and personality / Teleology : belief as perspective / Theory of mind, development, and deafness / Can theory of mind grow up? : mindreading in adults, and its implications for the development and neuroscience of mindreading / Mind attribution is for morality / Issues in the measurement of judgmental accuracy / Brain electrophysiological studies of theory of mind / Functional neuroimaging of theory of mind / Theory of mind : insights from patients with acquired brain damage / Understanding emotional and cognitive empathy : a neuropsychological perspective / Empathy and the brain / Neural sources of empathy : an evolving story / Mirror neuron system and social cognition / The mirror mechanism : understanding others from the inside / Social neuropeptides in the human brain : oxytocin and social behavior / Prenatal and postnatal testosterone effects on human social and emotional behavior / Understanding the genetics of empathy and the autistic spectrum / Theory of mind in deaf children : illuminating the relative roles of language and executive functioning in the development of social cognition / Social cognition in individuals with psychopathic tendencies / Two systems for action comprehension in autism : mirroring and mentalizing / Autism : self and others / A review of theory of mind interventions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum conditions / Culture and the evolution of interconnected minds / Mindreading by simulation : the roles of imagination and mirroring / Mindreading the self
Abstract:
Why do children with autism have such trouble developing normal social understanding of other people's feelings? This new edition updates the field by linking autism research to the newest methods for studying the brain.
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