The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is one of the main biological systems that regulates
the body's physiology. Autonomic nervous system regulatory capacity begins before birth as …

The recent shift from psychopathology to resilience and from diagnosis to functioning
requires the construction of transdiagnostic markers of adaptation. This review describes a …

Biobehavioral synchrony, the coordination of physiological and behavioral signals between
mother and infant during social contact, tunes the child's brain to the social world. Probing …

Comforting touch involves contact distress-alleviating behaviors of an observer towards the
suffering of a target. A growing number of studies have investigated the effects of touch on …

Highlights•Early tactile experiences are the most direct experience of contact with the
surrounding physical and social environment.•Affective touch interactions may promote …

The sense of self has always been a topic of high interest in both psychoanalysis and most
recently in neuroscience. Nowadays, there is an agreement in psychoanalysis that the self …

Attachment theory is built on the assumption of consistency; the mother–infant bond is
thought to underpin the life-long representations individuals construct of attachment …

Infant stimuli elicit widespread neural and behavioral response in human adults, and such
massive allocation of resources attests to the evolutionary significance of the primary …

Background Previous studies have shown that interpersonal neural synchronization (INS) is
a ubiquitous phenomenon between individuals, and recent studies have further …

The self is the core of our mental life which connects one's inner mental life with the external
perception. Since synchrony is a key feature of the biological world and its various species …