The Neuroscience of Typical and Atypical Social Development

This module will examine in depth, the different topics within developmental psychology from a social neuroscience approach. Students will be presented with various key aspects of typical and atypical socio-emotional development, and will learn how social cognitive and affective neuroscience core principles and methods have helped advance their understanding.

A number of topics are presented in depth in relation to challenges and concepts: action processing, the relation between motor and social development, dyadic and triadic interactions, processing emotional information, and the development of emotion regulation mechanisms.

A specific emphasis will be put on how different processes interact during development, and how this influences the outcome at different points during their ontogenic trajectory.