Für die Wissenschaft der sozialen Wahrnehmung vereint dieses Werk die Teilaspekte der Entwicklungspsychologie, der Neurowissenschaft und des Autismus und vermittelt einen Überblick über die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse.

Tricia Striano is Associate Professor of Psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is specialist of social and cognitive development in early infancy. Striano is author of over 80 publications and recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation www.infancyresearch.com.

Vincent Reid is a lecturer in psychology at Durham University, England. He has authored numerous papers on early social-cognitive development across a broad array of topics from the neural correlates of biological motion detection through to goal anticipation.