Most language usage is interactive, involving rapid turn-taking. The turn-taking system has a
number of striking properties: turns are short and responses are remarkably rapid, but turns …

Fluent conversation requires temporal organization between conversational exchanges. By
performing a systematic review and Bayesian multi‐level meta‐analysis, we map the …

Clicking is one of the most robust metaphors for social connection. But how do we know
when two people" click"? We asked pairs of friends and strangers to talk with each other and …

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

Conversations are an essential form of communication in daily family life. Specific patterns of
caregiver–child conversations have been linked to children's socio-cognitive development …

Emotions have a life beyond the immediate eliciting situation, as they tend to be shared with
others by putting the experience in narrative form. Narrating emotions helps us to express …

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider
music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different …

Human infant vocalization is viewed as a critical foundation for vocal learning and language.
All apes share distress sounds (shrieks and cries) and laughter. Another vocal type, speech …

Human newborns are cognitively and socially competent. Although they are sensitive to the
presence of a social partner, little is known on the emergence of the ability to partake in …

Intersubjectivity refers to two non-verbal intersubjective relations infants experience during
their first year that are precursors to the emergence of words. Trevarthen, a pioneer in the …