Title: Characterizing social knowledge representations and their role in social learning across clinical and non-clinical groups
This talk will discuss our approach to examining social knowledge and how it is used for learning. In current projects, we are extending our previous line of work on social learning to investigate how various adult and adolescent cohorts flexibly represent, employ, and acquire rich social knowledge when learning about others. We are using a combination of computational modeling, and neuroimaging to understand how adults and adolescents efficiently employ and refine social knowledge structures during learning. These projects also involve individuals with clinical disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, but can be integrated into a transdiagnostic approach to specifying social deficits across a wide range of clinical disorders.
