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Explicit instruction: why we need it and how it works

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By Chris Frith, Uta Frith
| Tes Verified
This article was originally published on 7 February 2024 Books and nature programmes love to tell stories about parent birds teaching their fledglings to fly and mother cats teaching their kittens to chase mice. But these stories are blatant examples of anthropomorphising. Birds fly and cats rush after small objects, all without being taught. When a kitten chases a ball of paper, this is because the kitten’s brain has built-in motor responses for hunting, triggered by certain stimuli.
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What makes us social and what does it tell us about mental disorders?

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By Chris Frith, Uta Frith
| Taylor & Francis Online
Our new book, “What Makes Us Social?” (Frith & Frith, Citation2023 published open access), started with four lectures on our joint topic of social cognitive neuroscience. We gave these lectures at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2014 with the understanding that we would publish them as part of the Jean Nicod lecture series. We first planned for seven chapters. However, over the years this book grew to 20 chapters reflecting the rapid growth of the field.
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What Makes Us Social?

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By Chris Frith, Uta Frith
| The MIT Press
Description Praise Open Access A deep dive into the social mind-brain, examining the processes we share with other social animals and illuminating those that are uniquely human. What Makes Us Social? is a scholarly but accessible exploration of the underlying processes that make humans the most social species on the planet.
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