During infancy relational experiences of body-to-body exchanges (ie, embodied
interactions) contribute to the infant's bodily perception. Early embodied interactions are …

Caregiving relationships in the postnatal period are critical to an infant's development.
Preterm infants and their parents face unique challenges in this regard, with infants …

Importance Good-quality parent-infant interactions have protective effects on infant socio-
emotional and behavioral development. These interactions are especially critical for very …

Aim To describe the facilitating/inhibiting factors of preparation for preterm infant discharge
and recommendations for increasing discharge readiness from parents' and healthcare …

Several studies have exploited the face inversion paradigm to unveil the mechanisms
underlying the processing of adult faces, showing that emotion recognition relies more on a …

The study was conducted with 104 mothers (average age 32.5 years, SD 6.1) of preterm
infants (very and moderately preterm but still healthy) to monitor the perceived maternal role …

Early brain damage leading to cerebral palsy is associated to core motor impairments and
also affects cognitive and social abilities. In particular, previous studies have documented …

Background Mothers of premature infants are in the risk group for having psychological
symptoms and attachment-interaction difficulties. Preventing these maternal risks is …

Background: Premature birth affects opportunities for interaction between infants and
mothers. Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) is standard care in neonatal care but has not been …

Face and body perception rely on specialized processing mechanisms to interpret social
information efficiently. The body inversion effect (BIE), refers to an inversion effect for bodies …