Various aspects of motherese also known as infant-directed speech (IDS) have been
studied for many years. As it is a widespread phenomenon, it is suspected to play some …

Highlights•When people move together in synchrony, they later behave more
prosocially.•This effect influences prosociality early, even in young infants.•Synchrony can …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Psychological scientists have become increasingly concerned with issues related to
methodology and replicability, and infancy researchers in particular face specific challenges …

Humans' preference for others who share our group membership is well documented, and
this heightened valuation of in-group members seems to be rooted in early development …

When people play music and dance together, they engage in forms of musical joint action
that are often characterized by a shared sense of rhythmic timing and affective state (ie …

Infant-directed speech (IDS) is the particular voice register observed in the majority of
parents in interaction with their infants and differs from natural speech used in conversations …

Imitation is ubiquitous in positive social interactions. For adult and child observers, it also
supports inferences about the participants in such interactions and their social relationships …

A common view of learning in infancy emphasizes the role of incidental sensory experiences
from which increasingly abstract statistical regularities are extracted. In this view, infant …

Adults who engage in synchronous movement to music later report liking each other better,
remembering more about each other, trusting each other more, and are more likely to …