title: Cognitive development: the neurocognitive basis of early prosociality.
abstract: Recent work has demonstrated that young children already engage in a variety of prosocial actions and evaluate the prosociality of others' behavior. A new study highlights the neural mechanisms that subserve perception and production of prosocial behavior in preschool children.
authors.affiliation: Department Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Leopoldstr. 13, 80802 Munich, Germany. Electronic address: markus.paulus@lmu.de.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paulus
mesh_terms: D002652:Child Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D035863:Moral Development; D012919:Social Behavior