[HTML][HTML] Early human motor development: From variation to the ability to vary and adapt

M Hadders-Algra - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
This review summarizes early human motor development. From early fetal age motor
behavior is based on spontaneous neural activity: activity of networks in the brainstem and …

Selected principles of Pankseppian affective neuroscience

KL Davis, C Montag - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In the early nineties of the twentieth century Jaak Panksepp coined the term “Affective
Neuroscience”(AN) today being accepted as a unique research area in cross-species brain …

[HTML][HTML] The human fetus preferentially engages with face-like visual stimuli

VM Reid, K Dunn, RJ Young, J Amu, T Donovan… - Current biology, 2017 - cell.com
In the third trimester of pregnancy, the human fetus has the capacity to process perceptual
information [1–3]. With advances in 4D ultrasound technology, detailed assessment of fetal …

Frontal temporal and parietal systems synchronize within and across brains during live eye-to-eye contact

J Hirsch, X Zhang, JA Noah, Y Ono - NeuroImage, 2017 - Elsevier
Human eye-to-eye contact is a primary source of social cues and communication. In spite of
the biological significance of this interpersonal interaction, the underlying neural processes …

Look me in the eyes: constraining gaze in the eye-region provokes abnormally high subcortical activation in autism

N Hadjikhani, J Åsberg Johnels, NR Zürcher… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) seem to have difficulties looking
others in the eyes, but the substrate for this behavior is not well understood. The subcortical …

Neonatal transitions in social behavior and their implications for autism

S Shultz, A Klin, W Jones - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Within the context of early infant–caregiver interaction, we review a series of pivotal
transitions that occur within the first 6 months of typical infancy, with emphasis on behavior …

Face perception and processing in early infancy: inborn predispositions and developmental changes

F Simion, ED Giorgio - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
From birth it is critical for our survival to identify social agents and conspecifics. Among
others stimuli, faces provide the required information. The present paper will review the …

[HTML][HTML] Human face and gaze perception is highly context specific and involves bottom-up and top-down neural processing

M Hadders-Algra - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This review summarizes human perception and processing of face and gaze signals. Face
and gaze signals are important means of non-verbal social communication. The review …

Hemispheric organization for visual object recognition: a theoretical account and empirical evidence

M Behrmann, DC Plaut - Perception, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the similarity in structure, the hemispheres of the human brain have somewhat
different functions. A traditional view of hemispheric organization asserts that there are …

Learning in infancy is active, endogenously motivated, and depends on the prefrontal cortices

G Raz, R Saxe - Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
A common view of learning in infancy emphasizes the role of incidental sensory experiences
from which increasingly abstract statistical regularities are extracted. In this view, infant …