Part I. Evolutionary, neural, and philosophical approaches to the social mind
ch. 1. An evolutionary basis for social cognition / Robin I. M. Dunbar
ch. 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
ch. 3. When the problem of intersubjectivity becomes the solution / Shaun Gallagher
Part II. Social experience and epigenetic mechanisms of gene-environment interactions
ch. 4. Differential susceptibility : developmental and evolutionary mechanisms of gene-environment interactions / Michael Pluess, Suzanne E. Stevens, and Jay Belsky
ch. 5. Variation in empathy : the interplay of genetic and environmental factors / Ariel Knafo and Florina Uzefovsky
Part III. The dynamic role of early social experience in vision, memory, and language
ch. 6. Development of brain networks for visual social-emotional information processing in infancy / Michelle de Haan and Leslie J. Carver
ch. 7. Event memory : neural, cognitive, and social influences on early development / Patricia J. Bauer
ch. 8. Biology of shared experience and language development : regulations for the intersubjective life of narratives / Colwyn Trevarthen and Jonathan Delafield-Butt
ch. 9. The situated infant : learning in context / Arlene Walker-Andrews, Sheila Krogh-Jespersen, Estelle Mayhew, and Carrie Coffield
Part IV. The role of early experience on social development
ch. 10. The developing social brain : social connections and social bonds, social loss, and jealousy in infancy / Maria Legerste
ch. 11. Infant memory consolidation : the social context of stress, learning, and memory / David W. Haley
ch. 12. Mother-infant attachment : a multilevel approach via body, brain, and behavior / Marc H. Bornstein
Part V. Neural processes of mental awareness
ch. 13. False-belief understanding in infants and preschoolers / Mark A. Sabbagh, Jeannette E. Benson, and Valerie A. Kuhlmeier
ch. 14. Neural connectivity, joint attention, and the social-cognitive deficits of autism / Peter Mundy.
