Comforting touch involves contact distress-alleviating behaviors of an observer towards the
suffering of a target. A growing number of studies have investigated the effects of touch on …

Social interactions accompany individuals throughout their whole lives. When examining the
underlying mechanisms of social processes, dynamics of synchrony, coordination or …

Caregiver touch plays a vital role in infants' growth and development, but its role as a
communicative signal in human parent-infant interactions is surprisingly poorly understood …

The transition to technologically-assisted communication has permeated all facets of human
social life; yet, its impact on the social brain is still unknown and the effects may be …

The use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning during naturalistic
interactions in parent–child dyads has substantially advanced our understanding of the …

Communicative signals such as eye contact increase infants' brain activation to visual stimuli
and promote joint attention. Our study assessed whether communicative signals during joint …

Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) has been previously evidenced in mother–child
interactions, yet findings concerning father–child interaction are wanting. The current …

Social interactions between parents and children are closely linked with children's
development, and interbrain synchrony has been shown to be a neural marker of social …

As social animals, humans are unique to make the world function well by developing,
maintaining, and enforcing social norms. As a prerequisite among these norm-related …

Understanding language neurobiology in early childhood is essential for characterizing the
developmental structural and functional changes that lead to the mature adult language …