Development of the Social Brain, Volume 39: Development of the Social Brain (The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology)

Social relationships play a central role in the evolution and development of human culture and cognition. Volume 39 of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology (Development of the Social Brain) adresses the ontogeny and phylogeny of the social brain from multiple perspectives and levels of analysis. The chapters in this volume shed light on shared versus unique features of social information processing across different species, and sketch out some of the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie such processing. A collection of chapters from distinguished contibutors offer new insights into the unique nature of human development. Flexibly and efficiently navigating the complex dynamics of social interaction remains one of the remarkable achievements of human evolution. As life in social contexts evolved, so did information processing abilities that afforded new ways of interacting with others, emerging into what we now refer to as cultural cognition or cultural practices. The primary objective of the current volume was to consider phylogenetic and ontogenetic influence on specialized social information processing capactities. The volume brings together, for the first time, distinguished research scholars to consider central themes and principles associated with the development of the social brain. Readers will take away a fresh perspective on nature of human nature. Table of Contents......Page 2 Preface......Page 10 List of Contributors......Page 13 INTRODUCTION......Page 16 PRIMATE MACHIAVELLIAN INTELLIGENCE AND THE SOCIAL BRAIN......Page 17 FROM MACHIAVELLIAN INTELLIGENCE TO THE CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE HYPOTHESIS......Page 21 THE EVOLUTION OF DEEP SOCIAL MIND......Page 25 THE ONTOGENY OF DEEP SOCIAL MIND: THE LIFE HISTORY MATRIX......Page 27 THE ONTOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTIONARY FOUNDATIONS OF DEEP SOCIAL MIND AND ITS SOCIAL BRAIN......Page 29 CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 38 REFERENCES......Page 39 PART I: Animal Models of Social Brain Function......Page 48 INTRODUCTION......Page 49 NEUROBEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF LEARNED MATERNAL CUES DURING THE ATTACHMENT SENSITIVE PERIOD......Page 52 UNCOVERING THE EFFECTS OF EARLY-LIFE ADVERSITY......Page 59 CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 61 REFERENCES......Page 62 INTRODUCTION......Page 81 BABBLING AND PERINATAL INFLUENCES ON VOCAL OUTPUT......Page 82 DEVELOPMENT OF VOCAL TURN-TAKING......Page 87 TURN-TAKING AS THE DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEM UPON WHICH INFANT VOCALIZATIONS ARE LEARNED......Page 88 THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AS THE ENGINE FOR VOCAL DEVELOPMENT......Page 92 EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS......Page 93 CONCLUSIONS......Page 94 REFERENCES......Page 95 PART II: Higher-Order Human Social Brain Function......Page 102 INTRODUCTION: WHAT AM I THINKING?......Page 103 READING MINDS AT ONE'S FOURTH BIRTHDAY PARTY: THE COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF MENTALIZING......Page 104 A PRIMER FOR THE NEURAL FOUNDATIONS OF THEORY OF MIND......Page 105 WHAT THE DIFFICULTIES OF ADULTS CAN TELL US ABOUT THEORY OF MIND REASONING......Page 106 READING MINDS LIKE BREATHING AIR: “AUTOMATIC” PERSPECTIVE TAKING......Page 109 BUILDING A THEORY OF MIND: FUNCTIONAL AND NEURAL CHANGES THROUGH CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE......Page 113 REFERENCES......Page 117 INTRODUCTION......Page 127 DEFINITIONAL ISSUES AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 129 PERCEPTION AND SENSITIVITY TO INTERPERSONAL HARM......Page 132 NEURODEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN THIRD-PARTY PERCEPTION OF INTERPERSONAL HARM......Page 144 ATYPICAL FUNCTIONAL AND ANATOMICAL CONNECTIVITY......Page 146 WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED......Page 148 WHERE SHOULD DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE BE HEADING?......Page 149 REFERENCES......Page 151 NOTE......Page 163 PART III: Summary and Future Directions......Page 164 INTRODUCTION......Page 165 MECHANISTIC FEATURES OF NEURAL DEVELOPMENT......Page 168 THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT: PERMISSIVE, INSTRUCTIVE, ENABLING, AND/OR BUFFERING?......Page 170 CAUSALITY: PARTIAL CORRELATION VERSUS TEMPORAL ORDER......Page 171 WHAT ARE THE PROCESSES? INSIGHTS FROM THE VARIED NATURE OF MENTALIZING......Page 173 FROM MECHANISMS TO PRINCIPLES......Page 174 REFERENCES......Page 177 Author Index......Page 180 Subject Index......Page 221 End User License Agreement......Page 250