It is a central tenet of attachment theory that individual differences in attachment
representations organize behavior during social interactions. Secure attachment …

Dominant theoretical accounts of interpersonal synchrony, the temporal coordination of
biobehavioral processes between several individuals, have employed a linear approach …

Autism is characterized by atypical social communication styles. To investigate whether
individuals with high autistic traits could still have effective social communication among …

Mutual prediction is crucial for understanding the mediation of bodily actions in social
interactions. Despite this importance, limited studies have investigated neurobehavioral …

Social interactions are fundamental to daily life, yet social neuroscience research has often
studied individuals' brains in isolation. Hyperscanning, the simultaneous recording of neural …

Social interaction is of fundamental importance to humans. Prior research has highlighted
the link between interbrain synchrony and positive outcomes in human social interaction …

The goal of this thesis is to understand what makes a social interaction successful, and
whether it supports learning of conceptual knowledge. Crucially, it distinguishes learning via …

Previous infant entrainment research has shown neural entrainment to a wide range of
stimuli and amplitude modulated frequencies. However, it is unknown if infants neurally …

Infants entrain to a wide variety of simple rhythmic stimuli from birth and more complex
stimuli during development (section 2.4). However, there is still limited understanding of …

The ability to engage in joint attention and perform joint actions is crucial for social life, and
therefore an indispensable attribute of human cognition. It is common in everyday life that …