Social perception and social cognition in typical and atypical development

我实验室的研究表明，早产儿有很大的运动处理困难的风险，包括处理人类行为的问题。拟议研究的一些关键目标是：（1）检查神经正常的成年人在处理人脸时如何使用动态线索，并探索个体差异因素（例如，观察者性别，处理风格）对这些过程的影响;（2）研究社会知觉中动态线索的使用如何在发展过程中发生变化;（3）确定影响许多早产儿的运动知觉问题如何影响这一发展过程。此外，将调查早产儿和足月自闭症谱系障碍儿童所经历的困难的相似性和差异。最后，我们将研究新生儿风险/神经因素（脑损伤，败血症等）之间的相互关系，在运动感知和社会感知/认知功能的计算机化测试上的表现（例如，代理和情绪编码;心理推理理论），以及更广泛定义的社会结果（内化障碍，社交技能等）。早产儿/青少年。通过研究我们如何在一系列社会知觉和社会认知任务中使用动态线索，并通过探索遗传，经验和认知因素的个体差异如何影响这些过程，拟议的工作将为我们理解社会大脑的发展和功能增加一个重要的维度。它还将帮助我们理解存在于特定诊断组内部和之间的惊人异质性。因此，这里描述的基础研究可能对许多部门的工作人员产生广泛的影响，包括科学和技术，教育，临床和健康心理学，认知和医疗康复，医学等。

Research in my laboratory has shown that children born very prematurely are at substantial risk for motion-processing difficulties, including problems processing human actions. Some of the key objectives of the proposed research are (1) to examine how neurotypical adults use dynamic cues when processing human faces and to explore the impact of individual difference factors (e.g., observer sex, processing style) on these processes; (2) to study how the use of dynamic cues in social perception changes over the course of development; and (3) to determine how problems with motion perception affecting many children born prematurely impact this developmental process. In addition, similarities and differences in the difficulties experienced by preterm children and full-term children with autism spectrum disorders will be investigated. Finally, we will study inter-relationships between neonatal risk/neurological factors (brain damage, sepsis, etc.), performance on computerized tests of motion perception and social perceptual/cognitive functions (e.g., coding of agency and emotions; theory of mind reasoning), and social outcomes more broadly defined (internalizing disorders, social skills, etc.) in preterm children/youth. By examining how we use dynamic cues in a range of social perceptual and social cognitive tasks, and by exploring how individual variations in genetic, experiential, and cognitive factors affect these processes, the proposed work will add an important dimension to our understanding of the development and functioning of the social brain. It will also help us to understand the amazing heterogeneity that exists within and across particular diagnostic groups. As a result, the basic research described here could have widespread implications for individuals working in many sectors including science and technology, education, clinical and health psychology, cognitive and medical rehabilitation, medicine, and more.