Parts of brain involved in social cognition may be in place by age 6

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 07:35 in Psychology & Sociology

Social cognition -- the ability to think about the minds and mental states of others -- is essential for human beings. In the last decade, a group of regions has been discovered in the human brain that are specifically used for social cognition.

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