Charting brain mechanisms for the development of social cognition

Neuroimaging in Developmental Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-90

  Pelphrey, Kevin A ^a   Perlman, Susan B ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ATTITUDE FORMATION; BIOLOGICAL MOTION; BRAIN MECHANISMS; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84928689366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511757402.008     Document Type: Chapter

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