{"id":163021,"date":"2023-04-29T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T18:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/children-and-adults-process-social-interactions-differently-study-reveals-key-differences-in-brain-activation"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T18:25:44","slug":"children-and-adults-process-social-interactions-differently-study-reveals-key-differences-in-brain-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/children-and-adults-process-social-interactions-differently-study-reveals-key-differences-in-brain-activation","title":{"rendered":"Children and Adults Process Social Interactions Differently: Study Reveals Key Differences in Brain Activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/children-and-adults-process-social-interactions-differently-study-reveals-key-differences-in-brain-activation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lead author Jon Walbrin explains, \u201cMost previous social neuroscience studies have focused on measuring responses to other people as individuals. But more recently there has been an increased interest in understanding brain responses to others in the context of social interactions. However, very little is currently known about how such responses develop during childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese results suggest that children and adults might employ different strategies for interaction understanding: Adults rely more on observable, body-based information, while children\u2014with less social experience\u2014engage more in effortful reasoning about what others are thinking and feeling during an interaction. This likely reflects the process of learning to understand interactive behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead author Jon Walbrin explains, \u201cMost previous social neuroscience studies have focused on measuring responses to other people as individuals. But more recently there has been an increased interest in understanding brain responses to others in the context of social interactions. However, very little is currently known about how such responses develop during childhood.\u201d \u201cThese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}