Background Literature has evidenced behavioral and socio-emotional problems in preterm
children, as well as long-term difficulties to establish and maintain social relationships in …

Social cognition refers to a broad range of cognitive processes and skills that allow
individuals to interact with and understand others, including a variety of skills from infancy …

Social skills are the basis of human interactions and functioning in society. Social
competence (SC) is thought to evolve gradually during childhood and adolescence via the …

Objective: To evaluate the correlates of a clinically significant high score on the Social
Responsiveness Scale (SRS) in 10-year-old children who were born extremely preterm and …

Although the study of infancy has answered many important questions about the human
capacity for social cognition, the relatively young field of developmental social cognition is …

Social cognitive abilities are affected by preterm birth, but pathways to, and risk factors for
this outcome are not well mapped. We examined direct assessment tasks including …

Background Research has shown that children born very prematurely are at substantially
elevated risk for social and behavioral difficulties similar to those seen in full‐term children …

Objective To increase the understanding of social adjustment and autism spectrum disorder
symptoms in adolescents born very preterm by studying the role of emotion recognition and …

Most definitions of social cognition in early childhood center on children's awareness of their
own and others' thoughts, feelings, beliefs and intentions (aka “theory of mind”) but from a …

Preterm birth is a major risk factor for children's development. It affects children's cognitive
and intellectual development and is related to impairments in IQ, executive functions, and …