A growing body of literature examining the neurocognitive processes of interpersonal
linguistic interaction indicates the emergence of neural alignment as participants engage in …

During infancy relational experiences of body-to-body exchanges (ie, embodied
interactions) contribute to the infant's bodily perception. Early embodied interactions are …

Understanding others is fundamental to interpersonal coordination and successful
cooperation. One mechanism posited to underlie both effective communication and …

Dance has traditionally been viewed from a Eurocentric perspective as a mode of self-
expression that involves the human body moving through space, performed for the purposes …

Conversations are an essential form of communication in daily family life. Specific patterns of
caregiver–child conversations have been linked to children's socio-cognitive development …

Caregiver touch plays a vital role in infants' growth and development, but its role as a
communicative signal in human parent-infant interactions is surprisingly poorly understood …

Maternal body odors serve as important safety-promoting and social recognition signals, but
their role in human brain maturation is largely unknown. Utilizing ecological paradigms and …

The transition to technologically-assisted communication has permeated all facets of human
social life; yet, its impact on the social brain is still unknown and the effects may be …

Communicative signals such as eye contact increase infants' brain activation to visual stimuli
and promote joint attention. Our study assessed whether communicative signals during joint …

The bulk of social neuroscience takes a 'stimulus-brain'approach, typically comparing brain
responses to different types of social stimuli, but most of the time in the absence of direct …