The ability to regulate emotions in response to stress is central to healthy development.
Whereas early research in emotion regulation predominantly employed static, self-report …

Early environmental experiences influence children's cognitive and neural development. In
particular, cognitive stimulation, defined as environmental inputs that engage the senses …

Women that become mothers face notable physiological adaptations during this life-period.
Neuroimaging studies of the last decade have provided grounded evidence that women's …

Interpersonal movement synchrony (IMS) is central to social behavior in several species. In
humans, IMS is typically studied using structured tasks requiring participants to produce …

There has been significant interest and progress in understanding the role of caregiver
unpredictability on brain maturation, cognitive and socioemotional development, and …

Assessing infant carrying and holding (C/H), or physical infant-caregiver interaction, is
important for a wide range of contexts in development research. An automated detection and …

The interdisciplinary field of developmental psychopathology has made great strides by
including context into theoretical and empirical approaches to studying risk and resilience …

Human infancy and early childhood is both a time of heightened brain plasticity and
responsivity to the environment as well as a developmental period of dependency on …

The relationships infants and young children have with their caregivers are fundamental to
their survival and well-being. Theorists and researchers across disciplines have attempted …

Developmental cascades—the view that development in one domain can induce change in
another—provide unique flexibility for researchers to examine relations among multiple …