PSYC 257. Development and Neurobiology of Theory of Mind (4 units)
Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/PSYC.html#psyc257
Description
Surveys research on people’s everyday attribution of mental states to predict/explain actions, their naïve theory of mind, from developmental and neurocognitive perspectives. Topics include social cognition in infancy and childhood, in autism, and in nonhuman primates, and the brain underpinnings. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Prerequisite courses
PSYC 257 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have PSYC 257 as a prerequisite.