Mammalian young are born with immature brain and rely on the mother's body and
caregiving behavior for maturation of neurobiological systems that sustain adult sociality …

Biobehavioral synchrony, the coordination of physiological and behavioral signals between
mother and infant during social contact, tunes the child's brain to the social world. Probing …

The cross-generational transmission of mammalian sociality, initiated by the parent's
postpartum brain plasticity and species-typical behavior that buttress offspring's …

Although interest in the neurobiology of parent–infant bonding is a century old,
neuroimaging of the human parental brain is recent. After summarizing current comparative …

Parental empathy is a key component of sensitive parenting that supports children's social
adaptation throughout life. Consistent with a two dissociable network perspective on …

Despite growing interest in the neuroscience of empathy, very little is known about the
developmental processes that foster the neural maturation of an empathic response. Here …

Infant stimuli elicit widespread neural and behavioral response in human adults, and such
massive allocation of resources attests to the evolutionary significance of the primary …

Empathy is a core human social ability shaped by biological dispositions and caregiving
experiences; yet the mechanisms sustaining maturation of the neural basis of empathy are …

Maternal body odors serve as important safety-promoting and social recognition signals, but
their role in human brain maturation is largely unknown. Utilizing ecological paradigms and …

Although contemporary socio-cultural changes dramatically increased fathers' involvement
in childrearing, little is known about the brain basis of human fatherhood, its comparability …