The Development of Social Brain Functions in Infancy.
One fundamental question in psychology is what makes humans such intensely social beings. Probing the developmental and neural origins of our social capacities is a way of addressing this question. In the last 10 years the field of social-cognitive development has witnessed a surge in studies using...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Bulletin Vol. 114; no. 6; pp. 1266 - 1288 |
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American Psychological Association
Nov2015
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