Maria Legerstee & David W. Haley 
The Infant Mind [EPUB ebook] 
Origins of the Social Brain

I. Evolutionary, Neural, and Philosophical Approaches to the Social Mind

1. An Evolutionary Basis for Social Cognition, Robin I. M. Dunbar

2. The Evolution of Motor Cognition: Its Role in the Development of Social Cognition and Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Vittorio Gallese and Magali Rochat

3. When the Problem of Intersubjectivity Becomes the Solution, Shaun Gallagher

II. Social Experience and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Gene–Environment Interactions

4. Differential Susceptibility: Developmental and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Gene–Environment Interactions, Michael Pluess, Suzanne E. Stevens, and Jay Belsky

5. Variation in Empathy: The Interplay of Genetic and Environmental Factors, Ariel Knafo and Florina Uzefovsky

III. The Dynamic Role of Early Social Experience in Vision, Memory, and Language

6. Development of Brain Networks for Visual Social-Emotional Information Processing in Infancy, Michelle de Haan and Leslie J. Carver

7. Event Memory: Neural, Cognitive, and Social Influences on Early Development, Patricia J. Bauer

8. Biology of Shared Experience and Language Development: Regulations for the Intersubjective Life of Narratives, Colwyn Trevarthen and Jonathan Delafield-Butt

9. The Situated Infant: Learning in Context, Arlene Walker-Andrews, Sheila Krogh-Jespersen, Estelle Mayhew, and Carrie Coffield

IV. The Role of Early Experience in Social Development

10. The Developing Social Brain: Social Connections and Social Bonds, Social Loss, and Jealousy in Infancy, Maria Legerstee

11. Infant Memory Consolidation: The Social Context of Stress, Learning, and Memory, David W. Haley

12. Mother–Infant Attunement: A Multilevel Approach via Body, Brain, and Behavior, Marc H. Bornstein

V. Neural Processes of Mental Awareness

13. False-Belief Understanding in Infants and Preschoolers, Mark A. Sabbagh, Jeannette E. Benson, and Valerie A. Kuhlmeier

14. Neural Connectivity, Joint Attention, and the Social-Cognitive Deficits of Autism, Peter Mundy

Maria Legerstee, Ph D, is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Infancy Centre for Research at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the recipient of a 5-year Canada University Research Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research from York University. Dr. Legerstee is a member of the editorial boards of Infant Behavior and Development and Infant and Child Development. Her research focuses on behavioral and neurological correlates of social-cognitive development during early childhood. David W. Haley, Ph D, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, where he serves as Principal Investigator in the Parent-Infant Research Lab and as Co-Organizer of the Centre for Parenting Research. His research examines the development of infant stress, learning, and memory in the context of the parent-infant relationship. Dr. Haley is currently examining the neural correlates of attention regulation in infants and parents. Marc H. Bornstein, Ph D, is Senior Investigator and Head of Child and Family Research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland. He has published in experimental, methodological, comparative, developmental, and cultural science, as well as neuroscience, pediatrics, and aesthetics. Dr. Bornstein is Founding Editor of the journal Parenting: Science and Practice.