The Still-Face Paradigm (SFP) designed by Tronick, Als, Adamson, Wise, and Brazelton
(Tronick, E., Als, H., Adamson, L., Wise, S., & Brazelton, TB (1978). Infants response to …

Background: During the last decades, the research on mother-infant dyad has produced a
great amount of data, methods and theories, which largely contributed to set a revolution in …

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

This response defends the view that human metacognition results from us turning our
mindreading capacities upon ourselves, and that our access to our own propositional …

I make three related proposals concerning the development of receptive communication in
human infants. First, I propose that the presence of communicative intentions can be …

Relations among different measures of maternal sensitivity were assessed longitudinally by
examining maternal behavior when infants were 4 months, 15 months, and 2.5 years. At …

This study analyzed German and Nso mothers' auditory, proximal, and visual contingent
responses to their infants' nondistress vocalizations in postnatal Weeks 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 …

This brief report reviews findings from a longitudinal study of skin-to-skin contact (SSC) with
mothers and full-term infants and a follow-up study of these dyads when the children were 9 …