Main description:

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.

Contents:

Studying parent-child interaction with hyperscanning

Trinh Nguyen, Anna Banki, Gabriela Markova and Stefanie Hoehl

2. Importance of body representations in social-cognitive development: New insights from infant brain science

Andrew N. Meltzoff and Peter J. Marshall

3. Early maturation of the social brain: How brain development provides a platform for the acquisition of social-cognitive competence

Judit Ciarrusta, Ralica Dimitrova and Grainne McAlonan

4. Using head-mounted eye-trackers to study sensory-motor dynamics of coordinated attention

Chi-hsin Chen, Claire Monroy, Derek M. Houston and Chen Yu

5. Motion tracking in developmental research: Methods, considerations, and applications

Johanna E. van Schaik and Nadia Dominici

6. Getting a grip on early intention understanding: The role of motor, cognitive, and social factors

Charlotte L. de Moor and Sarah A. Gerson

7. Theory of mind development: State of the science and future directions

Diane Poulin-Dubois

8. How an infant's active response to structured experience supports perceptual-cognitive development

Sori Baek, Sagi Jaffe-Dax and Lauren Emberson

9. Becoming better together. The early development of interpersonal coordination

Marlene Meyer and Sabine Hunnius

10. The developmental emergence of morality: A review of current theoretical perspectives

Markus Paulus

11. Culture and early social-cognitive development

Joscha Kartner, Nils Schuhmacher and Marta Giner Torrens

12. Insights from comparative research on social and cultural learning

Trix Cacchione and Federica Amici

13. Social attention: What is it, how can we measure it, and what can it tell us about autism and ADHD?

Eleanor K. Braithwaite, Anna Gui and Emily J.H. Jones