Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying social learning in infancy: Infants' neural processing of the effects of others' actions

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 774-779

  Paulus, Markus ^a   Hunnius, Sabine ^b   Bekkering, Harold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action perception coupling; Ideomotor theory; Infants; Neurocognitive processes; Observational learning

Indexed keywords

ACTION-PERCEPTION COUPLING; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IDEOMOTOR THEORY; INFANT; INFANTS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROCOGNITIVE PROCESSES; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ACTION-PERCEPTION COUPLING; IDEOMOTOR THEORY; INFANTS; NEUROCOGNITIVE PROCESSES; OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING;

BRAIN; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84881073311     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss065     Document Type: Article

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