In recent decades, human sociocultural changes have increased the numbers of fathers that
are involved in direct caregiving in Western societies. This trend has led to a resurgence of …

Allomothering, the caregiving to offspring by adults other than the biological mother
including fathers and other group members, has characterized human societies throughout …

The Parental Brain: Mechanisms, Development, and Evolution presents a comprehensive
analysis of how the brain regulates parental behavior in nonhuman animals and in humans …

Research shows that a woman's brain and body undergo drastic changes to support her
transition to parenthood during the perinatal period. The presence of this plasticity suggests …

Parental care is essential for the survival of offspring in altricial mammalian species.
However, in most mammals, virgin females tend to avoid or attack infants. Moreover, most …

With the growing involvement of fathers in childrearing and the application of neuroscientific
tools to research on parenting, there is a need to understand how a father's brain and …

Previous work suggests that infant cry perception is supported by an evolutionary old neural
network consisting of the auditory system, the thalamocingulate circuit, the frontoinsular …

One way music is thought to convey emotion is by mimicking acoustic features of affective
human vocalizations [Juslin and Laukka (2003). Psychol. Bull. 129 (5), 770–814]. Regarding …

The transition into fatherhood is a life-changing event that requires substantial psychological
adaptations. In families that include a father figure, sensitive paternal behavior has been …

As fathering research has flourished, a growing body of studies has focused on behavioral
and neurobiological mechanisms, respectively associated with caregiving sensitivity and …