Lifelong development of embodied social cognition: From the viewpoint of ‘inside’ and ‘out’

Abstract

Understanding another's behavior and how other people see the world is one of the skills necessary for us to interact in the dynamic and fluid social world we live in. In this talk, two aspects of body perception from two different views in atypical development are discussed. The first view observes the body and bodily motion from the outside; we report our series of electrophysiological and behavioral studies on action perception in children with atypical development. The second view observes the body from the inside; we report a series of studies on visual perspective-taking where the ability to understand takes into account what and how the subjects see.