In natural settings, infants learn spoken language with the aid of a caregiver who explicitly
provides social signals. Although previous studies have demonstrated that young infants are …

Background Depression in the postpartum period involves feelings of sadness, anxiety and
irritability, and attenuated feelings of pleasure and comfort with the infant. Even mild-to …

The aim of the study was to investigate how young infants respond to contingent and non-
contingent interaction in relation to maternal level of depressive symptoms in a non-clinical …

The relation between maternal soothing and infant stress response during inoculation was
examined in a sample of 37 mothers and their 3-month-old infants. The mothers' soothing …

Infants' sensitivity to social or behavioral contingency has been examined in the field of
developmental psychology and behavioral sciences, mainly using a double video paradigm …

Even if it is never possible to create a sentient robot that might lay claim to the status of
personhood, a convincingly realistic robotic simulation of the human body could alter how …

The present study examined the association between a woman's close relationships and
mental health and the quality of her maternal behaviour in early mother–infant interaction. A …

A finite register method of processing dialog transcripts is used to measure interlocutor
synchrony. Successive contributions by participants are measured for word n-gram …

This chapter builds on the model of a meshed architecture introduced by (Christensen et al.,
Mind & Language 31: 37–66, 2016) to explain skilled performance. The model, as it has …

Résumé But: Afin de saisir le rôle des interactions adulte–enfant dans le développement de
l'expression de la douleur, nous avons mené une étude qualitative de contenus interactifs …