Ontogenetic pathway(s) to social reciprocity (C03)

• Subject Area: Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 454648639

Understanding the relation between postnatal brain development and neurofunctional changes in basic social, motor, perceptual, and prelinguistic domains will open a unique window for deciphering the ontogenesis of the complex social-cognitive faculty. With this project, we will research a cohort of neurotypical infants during their first four months of life and delineate the emergence of intentional social engagement in its developmental context. This project taps on the ontogenetically youngest and most fundamental forms of social reciprocity as the foundation for complex social cognition and interaction.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1528: Cognition of Interaction
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Peter Marschik