social cognition

collocation in English

meaningsofsocialandcognition

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social
adjective
uk
/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/
us
/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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cognition
noun[U]
uk
/kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
us
/kɑːɡ-/
the use of conscious ...
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(Definition ofsocialandcognitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Neuroimaging and neuropsychological lesion studies might provide crucial complementary information for the understanding ofsocialcognitiondysfunction in people with schizophrenia.
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Nevertheless, the paper does raise interesting and intellectually challenging theoretical and empirical questions about the role of social interaction for the development ofsocialcognition.
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It is therefore a core aspect ofsocialcognition.
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For example, further studies examining the neural basis of self-recognition may help increase our understanding of the neurology ofsocialcognition.
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The social deficits that characterise most psychopathologies illustrate the unambiguous importance of maturesocialcognitionfor healthy individual and interpersonal functioning.
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We highlight the role ofsocialcognitionin word learning and emphasize the communicativereferential functions of early gaze following and pointing.
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These systems underlie our ability to function as highly social animals and provide the substrate for intactsocialcognition, social behaviour, and affective responsiveness.
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In addition to being a marker ofsocialcognition, gaze following and pointing play roles in everyday interactions that may specifically facilitate infants' word learning.
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The importance ofsocialcognitionin conversational development has been stressed by many authors.
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The distinction betweensocialcognitionand neurocognition is unsatisfactory, mainly referring to a difference in the approach of the researcher.
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Similar critiques of the errors-and-biases approach tosocialcognitionhave a history almost as long as the approach itself.
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A newer look : motivatedsocialcognitionand the schematic representation of social concepts.
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Together, these studies indicate that there is a pressing need for empirical studies of the relationship betweensocialcognitionand social dysfunction in schizophrenia.
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If dolphins are capable of collaborative learning, based on experimental evidence ofsocialcognition, cultural learning may prove not to be a uniquely human phenomenon.
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However, the welcome focus on mind-reading (socialcognition) as fundamental to the word learning process is not taken far enough.
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They argue that it is essential to placesocialcognitionin an interpersonal context and to evaluate its overall adaptive success by a cost-benefit analysis.
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Research should therefore also be aimed at investigating the genetic basis of hemispheric connectivity and its role in dysfunctionalsocialcognitionin schizophrenia.
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The essential developmental features ofsocialcognitionamong individuals who eventually develop schizophrenia remain, as described above, incompletely assessed.
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