A5014793726- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Infant Health and Development
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
University of Reading
2016-2023
University of Lincoln
2022
Deleted Institution
2022
University of California, Davis
2016-2018
Language Science (South Korea)
2017
University of Parma
2012-2017
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
2014-2017
National Institutes of Health
2014-2017
University of Pisa
2012
Significance Oxytocin promotes positive social behaviors in several species and therefore may be a therapeutic tool for neurodevelopmental disorders. It remains untested, however, whether oxytocin affect infants, effects vary depending on infants’ skills or interest. To test these predictions, we administered nebulized to rhesus macaque newborns. Macaques, like humans, engage complex face-to-face mother–infant interactions. increased affiliative communicative gestures decreased salivary...
Abstract By two-three months, infants show active social expressions during face-to-face interactions. These interactions are important, as they provide the foundation for later emotional regulation and cognition, but little is known about how infant expressiveness develops. We considered two different accounts. One emphasizes contingency of parental responsiveness, regardless its form; other, functional architecture account, preparedness both parents to respond in specific ways particular...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by core social impairments. ASD remains poorly understood because of the difficulty in studying disease biology directly patients and reliance on mouse models that lack clinically relevant, complex cognition abilities. We use ethological observations rhesus macaques to identify male monkeys with naturally occurring low sociality. These showed differences specific neuropeptide kinase signaling pathways compared...
In primates, including humans, mothers engage in face-to-face interactions with their infants, frequencies varying both within and across species. However, the impact of this variation on infant social development is unclear. Here we report that monkeys (Macaca mulatta) who engaged more neonatal have increased at 2 5 months. a controlled experiment, show effect not due to physical contact alone: randomly assigned receive additional (mutual gaze intermittent lip-smacking) human caregivers...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by social cognition impairments but its basic disease mechanisms remain poorly understood. Progress has been impeded the absence of animal models that manifest behavioral phenotypes relevant to ASD. Rhesus monkeys are an ideal model organism address this barrier progress. Like humans, rhesus highly social, possess complex abilities, and exhibit pronounced individual differences in functioning. Moreover, we have previously shown Low-Social (LS)...
It is a priority for public health professionals to improve global breastfeeding rates, which have remained low in Western countries more than decade. Few researchers addressed how maternal perceptions of birth experiences affect infant feeding methods. Furthermore, mixed results been shown research regarding and mother-child bonding, many studies are limited by small sample sizes, representing need further investigation.We aimed examine the relationship between subjective outcomes, explored...
Parental responsiveness and synchronization during early face-to-face interactions between mother infant have been theorized to affect a broad spectrum of positive developmental outcomes in social cognitive growth facilitate the development sense self baby. Here we show that being imitated can significantly behavior nursery-reared monkeys, which are at an increased risk for developing aberrant behaviors. Infants look longer lipsmack more experimenter both imitation after imitated. These...
Touch is one of the first senses to develop and earliest modalities for infant-caregiver communication. While studies have explored benefits infant touch in terms physical health growth, effects social on behavior are relatively unexplored. Here, we investigated influence neonatal handling a variety domains, including memory, novelty seeking, interest, monkeys (Macaca mulatta; n=48) from 2 12 weeks age. Neonates were randomly assigned receive extra holding, with or without accompanying...
Newborn rhesus macaques imitate facial gestures even after a delay, revealing the flexible nature of their early communicative exchanges. In present study we examined whether newborn are also sensitive to identities social partners with whom they interacting. We measured infant monkeys' (n = 90) lipsmacking and tongue protrusion in face-to-face interaction task human experimenter first week life. After one-minute same person who previously presented or different returned still face infants....
The ability to recognize individuals is a critical skill acquired early in life for group living species. In primates, individual recognition occurs predominantly through face discrimination. Despite the essential adaptive value of this ability, robust differences conspecific exist, yet its associated biology remains unknown. Although pharmacological administration oxytocin has implicated neuropeptide perception and social memory, no prior research tested relationship between endogenous...
Previous developmental research suggests that motor experience supports the development of action perception across lifespan. However, it is still unknown when neural mechanisms underlying action-perception coupling emerge in infancy. The goal this study was to examine correlates during emergence grasping abilities newborn rhesus macaques. Neural activity, recorded via electroencephalogram (EEG), while monkeys observed actions, mimed actions and means-end movements first (W1) second week...
Similarly to humans, rhesus macaques engage in mother-infant face-to-face interactions. However, no previous studies have described the naturally occurring structure and development of interactions this population used a comparative-developmental perspective directly compare them ones reported humans. Here, we investigate infant communication, maternal responsiveness two groups. We video-recorded both groups naturalistic settings analysed with same micro-analytic coding scheme. Results show...
ACCEPTED ARTICLE - It is a priority for public health professionals to improve global breastfeeding rates, which have remained low in Western countries more than decade. Few researchers addressed how maternal perceptions of birth experiences affect infant feeding methods. Furthermore, mixed results been shown research regarding and mother-child bonding, many studies are limited by small sample sizes, representing need forfurther investigation.We aimed examine the relationship between...