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… • Elsewhere at FPN • Outside UM in clinical setting (see later slide) • Outside UM at other university Infancy Course Is face perception species-specific from birth or is it learned? Pascalis et al., 2001 Learning plays a role: 6-month old babies can discriminate different human and monkey faces. However, 9-month olds can only discriminate human faces. 9-month old babies can regain the ability to discriminate monkey faces when trained to do so. This points to a big role of experience on visual perception development > high plasticity. Pascalis et al., 2005 Perception attention and motor development Infants around 2 years of age sometimes make scale errors This is … Biological basis of social-emotional development Imitation is highly important for learning of motor actions, but also for emotional development. Biological basis of imitation of actions and emotions: mirror neurons Autistic children have problems with imitation and understanding others; role of mirror neuron system ? Healthy children Autistic children Programme: 4 courses, 2 practical trainings Nov-Dec: 7 weeksSept-Oct: 7 weeks Development of Cognition and Language Infancy Psychological …