Background maternal postnatal depression confers strong risk for impaired child
development. Little is known about the association between women's postnatal birth …

Many group-living animals, humans included, occasionally synchronize their behavior with
that of conspecifics. Social psychology and neuroscience have attempted to explain this …

Understanding others is fundamental to interpersonal coordination and successful
cooperation. One mechanism posited to underlie both effective communication and …

Currently, we understand much about how children's brains attend to and learn from
information presented while they are alone, viewing a screen–but less about how …

We investigated if group music training in childhood is associated with prosocial skills.
Children in 3rd or 4th grade who attended 10 months of music lessons taught in groups …

Background Meaningful, valid and reliable self-report measures can facilitate the
identification of important parent-infant-relationship factors, relevant intervention …

Coordinated brain activity between individuals, or inter-brain synchrony, has been shown to
increase during cooperation and correlate with cooperation success. However, few studies …

Abstract In 1943, Leo Kanner published the first systematic description of early infantile
autism. He concluded that this was a neurodevelopmental disorder and that 'these children …

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 …

The social benefits of interpersonal synchrony are widely recognized. Yet, little is known
about its impact on the self. According to enactive cognitive science, the human self for its …