We review research evidence on the emergence and development of active “self-and-other”
awareness in infancy, and examine the importance of its motives and emotions to mental …

Musical behaviours are universal across human populations and, at the same time, highly
diverse in their structures, roles and cultural interpretations. Although laboratory studies of …

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 …

When infants and adults communicate, they exchange social signals of availability and
communicative intention such as eye gaze. Previous research indicates that when …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

Musicality in human motives, the psycho-biological source of music, is described as a talent
inherent in the unique way human beings move, and hence experience their world, their …

Freud's experiences, lead, the have complex emphasized ways in the which crucial
children's importance experiences, of early memories, and fantasies have enduring …

Although it is often assumed that men have an important influence on their children's
development, the supportive evidence can be difficult to locate and summarize. In this paper …

Infant-directed maternal speech is an important component of infants' linguistic input.
However, speech from other speakers and speech directed to others constitute a large …