This article provides a review of the increasingly detailed imaging literature on the
neurodevelopment of joint attention. Many findings from this literature support and inform the …

This meta-analysis explores the role of the mirror and mentalizing systems in the
understanding of other people's action goals. Based on over 200 fMRI studies, this analysis …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

Before social cognition there is joint processing of information about the attention of self and
others. This joint attention requires the integrated activation of a distributed cortical network …

Developmental psychology and psychopathology has in the past been more concerned with
the quality of self‐representation than with the development of the subjective agency which …

Eyes and gaze are very important stimuli for human social interactions. Recent studies
suggest that impairments in recognizing face identity, facial emotions or in inferring attention …

Drawing on recent findings in the cognitive and neurosciences, this article discusses how
people manage to predict each other's actions, which is fundamental for joint action. We …

Recent data identify distinct components of social cognition associated with five brain
regions. In posterior temporal cortex, the extrastriate body area is associated with perceiving …

This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James
Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he …

BACKGROUND: Functional neuroimaging studies of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have
examined social and nonsocial paradigms, although rarely in the same study. Here, we …