title: Interaction versus observation: a finer look at this distinction and its importance to autism.
abstract: Although a second-person neuroscience has high ecological validity, the extent to which a second- versus third-person neuroscience approach fundamentally alters neural patterns of activation requires more careful investigation. Nonetheless, we are hopeful that this new avenue will prove fruitful in significantly advancing our understanding of typical and atypical social cognition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. redcay@umd.edu
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Redcay
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rice
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saxe
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D059167:Mirror Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012938:Social Perception; D056345:Theory of Mind / Q000502:physiology*