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The Intriguingly Social N400 of Preverbal Infants.

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Authors: Bálint Forgács1,2, Eugenio Parise3, Judit Gervain4, Nóra Berkes1, Adél Szigeti1, Belma Bumin Feride1, Ildikó Király1,5
ORCID iDs: Eugenio Parise
  1. Department of Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  2. Department of Experimental and Neurocognitive Psychology, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
  3. CIMeC—Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Università di Trento, Trento, Italy
  4. Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione—DPSS, Università di Padova, Padua, Italy
  5. MTA‐ELTE Social Minds Research Group, Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Institutions: Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary); Freie Universität Berlin (Germany); University of Trento (Italy); University of Padua (Italy)
Journal: Developmental neurobiology, volume 86, issue 2, article e70027
Dates: received 14 July 2025; accepted 7 March 2026; published online 31 March 2026; in print April 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Identifiers: DOI 10.1002/dneu.70027 · PMID 41914355 · PMCID PMC13036711 · OpenAlex W7144037820
Open access: hybrid, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: data only
Categories: EEG (modality), human (organism)
Methods: Spectral & time-frequency, Preprocessing, Evoked potentials, fMRI & imaging, Physiology & signal measures
Keywords: language processing, mentalization, N400, social cognition, Theory‐of‐Mind
MeSH: Brain*, Evoked Potentials*, Language Development*, Social Cognition*, Social Perception*, Theory of Mind*, Comprehension, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Infant, Male (* major topic)
Topic: Child and Animal Learning Development (Developmental and Educational Psychology, Psychology), according to OpenAlex
Funding: Agence Nationale de la Recherche, French Investissements d'Avenir - Labex EFL Program (ANR-10-LABX-0083); ECOS Sud action (C20S02); Italian Ministry for Universities and Research PRIN grant (2022WX3FM5); European Research Council (773202); Italian Ministry for Universities and Research FARE grant (R204MPRHKE); magyar tudományos akadémia (MTAPost‐Covid/2021); Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTAPost-Covid/2021); European Union Next Generation EU NRRP M6C2 - Investment 2.1 - SYNPHONIA Project (CLP: PNRR-MAD2022-12376739, CUP: C63C22001320007); European Research Council: Consolidator Grant "BabyRhythm" (773202)
Citations: not cited yet (Europe PMC); 114 references in the paper

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Forgács, B., Parise, E., Gervain, J., Berkes, N., Szigeti, A., Feride, B. B., & Király, I. (2026). The Intriguingly Social N400 of Preverbal Infants. Developmental neurobiology, 86(2), e70027. https://doi.org/10.1002/dneu.70027

BibTeX

@article{forgacs2026intriguingly,
author = {Forgács, Bálint and Parise, Eugenio and Gervain, Judit and Berkes, Nóra and Szigeti, Adél and Feride, Belma Bumin and Király, Ildikó},
title = {{The Intriguingly Social N400 of Preverbal Infants}},
journal = {Developmental neurobiology},
year = {2026},
month = apr,
volume = {86},
number = {2},
pages = {e70027},
publisher = {Wiley},
issn = {1932-8451},
doi = {10.1002/dneu.70027},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/dneu.70027},
pmid = {41914355},
pmcid = {PMC13036711}
}

RIS

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AU - Parise, Eugenio
AU - Gervain, Judit
AU - Berkes, Nóra
AU - Szigeti, Adél
AU - Feride, Belma Bumin
AU - Király, Ildikó
TI - The Intriguingly Social N400 of Preverbal Infants
T2 - Developmental neurobiology
J2 - Dev Neurobiol
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/04/01
VL - 86
IS - 2
SP - e70027
SN - 1932-8451
PB - Wiley
DO - 10.1002/dneu.70027
UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/dneu.70027
LA - en
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