Abstract Infants’ social touch with caregivers has been considered a means of regulating infant physiological and emotional state. In non-human mammals, such regulatory function also facilitates exploration behavior. However, the types in human mother–infant interaction that contribute to specific behavioral responses toward people objects remain unclear. Using pre- post-task design, this study...

Background  The aim of this study was determine the effect of kangaroo mother care (KMC) immediately after delivery on mother-infant attachment 3-month after delivery. Materials and Methods: In this RCT study, 72 mother-infant pairs were randomly divided in to kangaroo mother care and routine care groups.The intervention group received kangaroo mother care (KMC) in the first two hours post birt...

A crucial step in language evolution was likely joint attention with alternating gaze between vocalizing individuals and an object. This triadic interaction likely formed a foundation for labeling of objects. We have argued that vocalizations used for “social glue” – flexible low intensity and low arousal vocalizations given during e.g. grooming, keeping in contact with the group, etc. – are a ...

The degree to which infants' current actions are influenced by previous action is fundamental to our understanding of early social and cognitive competence. In this study, we found that infant gazing manifested notable temporal dependencies during interaction with mother even when controlling for mother behaviors. The durations of infant gazes at mother's face were positively predicted by the d...

<p>Infant massage is a scientifically proven practice that promotes the physical and mental health of infant. The term infant refers to application touch by parent or caregiver during first year life with specific massages. Through following literature review, benefits for infant, family wider society are noted commented on. its recorded in four different areas. These refer concept infant...

BACKGROUND Women with borderline personality disorder have conflictual interpersonal relations that may extend to disrupted patterns of interaction with their infants. AIMS To assess how women with borderline personality disorder engage with their 12 to 18-month-old infants in separation-reunion episodes. METHOD We videotaped mother-infant interactions in separation-reunion episodes of the ...

The authors investigated relations between mother-infant dyadic coordination and infants' physiological responses. Mothers (N=73) and 3-month-old male and female infants were observed in the still-face paradigm, and mothers' and infants' affective states were coded at 1-s intervals. Synchrony and levels of matching between mother-infant affective states were computed, and infants' heart rate an...

Studying early interaction is essential for understanding development and psychopathology. Automatic computational methods offer the possibility to analyse social signals and behaviours of several partners simultaneously and dynamically. Here, 20 dyads of mothers and their 13-36-month-old infants were videotaped during mother-infant interaction including 10 extremely high-risk and 10 low-risk d...