Background: During the last decades, the research on mother-infant dyad has produced a
great amount of data, methods and theories, which largely contributed to set a revolution in …

Childhood adversity is associated with increased risk for psychopathology.
Neurodevelopmental pathways underlying this risk remain poorly understood. A recent …

Infant-directed singing is a culturally universal musical phenomenon known to promote the
bonding of infants and caregivers. Entrainment is a widely observed physical phenomenon …

This study used LENA recording devices to capture infants' home language environments
and examine how qualitative differences in adult responding to infant vocalizations related …

The first years of life are critical for language development. Numerous studies indicate that
actively participating in music creates a neural processing advantage in brain regions that …

The study of vocal coordination between infants and adults has led to important insights into
the development of social, cognitive, emotional, and linguistic abilities. We used an …

Background Parent-infant interactions provide the foundation for the development of infant
socioemotional wellbeing. Preterm birth can have a substantial, and often detrimental …

Touch is an important means through which mothers and infants co-regulate during periods
of stress or perturbation. The present study examined the synchrony of maternal and infant …

Mother–infant interactional synchrony has been hypothesized to be crucial for the
development of many key neurodevelopmental behaviors in infants, including speech and …

Objectives: The primary objective of the study was to examine the occurrence and temporal
structure of vocal turn-taking during spontaneous interactions between mothers and their …