Using optogenetic dyadic animal models to elucidate the neural basis for human parent-infant social knowledge transmission

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Leong, Victoria, Ham, Gao Xiang, Augustine, George James
• مؤلفون آخرون: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2022
• الموضوعات: Science::Medicine; Social sciences::Psychology; Social Learning; Optogenetics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154052
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Healthy early development depends on a warm reciprocal relationship between parent and offspring, where parent and infant interact in close temporal co-ordination as if engaged in a “dyadic dance” of glances, gestures, smiles and words (Stern, 1985; Gianino and Tronick, 1988). Most, if not all, early learning takes place during these well-choreographed social exchanges, which support cultural knowledge transmission from parent to offspring using verbal and non-verbal forms of communication and behavioural modelling. Such vicarious knowledge transmission through social interaction (rather than direct experience) is known as social learning (Bandura, 1971; Csibra and Gergely, 2009). Tomasello (2014) argues that human mastery of these “second-personal social relations” (Darwall, 2006)—in which social partners share and create joint knowledge, intentionality and goals—has accelerated the rise of the human species through “cultural intelligence” (Herrmann et al., 2007).