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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue 5, Pages 269-274Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00518.x
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attention; joint attention; cognitive neuroscience; autism; interconnectivity
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Before social cognition there is joint processing of information about the attention of self and others. This joint attention requires the integrated activation of a distributed cortical network involving the anterior and posterior attention systems. In infancy, practice with the integrated activation of this distributed attention network is a major contributor to the development of social cognition. Thus, the functional neuroanatomies of social cognition and the anterior-posterior attention systems have much in common. These propositions have implications for understanding joint attention, social cognition, and autism.
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