Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience

Name: Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

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 tasks\u2013\u2013genetic 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\u2019s 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.\nThe chapters in this book highlight the.