Background Assessment of mother-child interactions is a core issue of early child
development and psychopathology. This paper focuses on the concept of “synchrony” and …

An important shift is taking place in social cognition research, away from a focus on the
individual mind and toward embodied and participatory aspects of social understanding …

I make three related proposals concerning the development of receptive communication in
human infants. First, I propose that the presence of communicative intentions can be …

This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the" second person" in human interaction,
the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state …

Abnormalities in melatonin physiology may be involved or closely linked to the
pathophysiology and behavioral expression of autistic disorder, given its role in …

Automatic mimicry is a critical element of social interaction. A salient type of automatic
mimicry is eye contact characterized by sharing of affective and mental states among …

The P1 and N170 components, two event-related potentials sensitive to face processing,
were examined in response to faces and vehicles for children with autism and typical …

Recently acquired fMRI data from human and macaque infants provide novel insights into
the origins of cortical networks specialized for perceiving faces. Data from both species …

There is a growing interest in the role of biological and behavioral rhythms in typical and
atypical development. Recent studies in cognitive and developmental psychology have …

Rhythmic patterns in interactive contexts characterize human behaviours such as
conversational turn-taking. These timed patterns are also present in other animals, and often …