A5007379790- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Infant Health and Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Global Health Care Issues
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Neonatal and Maternal Infections
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Face recognition and analysis
- Neonatal Health and Biochemistry
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
University of Miami
2016-2025
University of Massachusetts Boston
2019-2024
Duke University
2024
James Madison University
2024
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
2024
University of Missouri–Kansas City
2011-2022
Children's Mercy Hospital
2011-2021
Boston University
2021
Sisters of Mercy Health System
2019
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
2013-2017
The meaning, mechanism, and function of imitation in early infancy have been actively discussed since Meltzoff Moore's (1977) report facial manual by human neonates. Oostenbroek et al. (2016) claim to challenge the existence counter all interpretations so far offered. Such claims, if true, would implications for theories social-cognitive development. Here we identify 11 flaws al.'s experimental design that biased results toward null effects. We requested obtained authors' raw data. Contrary...
To characterize discrepancies between transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) measurements and total serum (TSB) levels among newborns receiving care at multiple nursery sites across the United States.Medical records were reviewed to obtain data on all TcB collected during two 2-week periods neonates admitted participating newborn nurseries. Data TSB obtained within 2 hours of a measurement also abstracted. TcB--TSB differences correlations values determined. demographic information for individual...
BACKGROUND: The assessment of jaundice in outpatient neonates is problematic. Visual inaccurate, and more exact methodologies are cumbersome and/or expensive. Our goal this study was to assess the accuracy a technology based on analysis digital images newborns obtained using smartphone application called BiliCam. METHODS: Paired BiliCam total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels were diverse sample (<7 days old) at 7 sites across United States. By specialized software, data color values...
Much of our basic understanding cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures looking time, specifically infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation many behavioral tasks infant research, determinants preferences are poorly understood, differences expression can be difficult to interpret. In this large-scale study, we test predictions from Hunter Ames model infants' preferences. We investigate effects three factors...
Recent reports of similar patterns brain electrical activity (electroencephalogram: EEG) during action execution and observation, recorded from scalp locations over motor-related regions in infants adults, have raised the possibility that two foundational abilities--controlling one's own intentional actions perceiving others' actions--may be integrally related ontogeny. However, to our knowledge, there are no published relations between developments motor skill (i.e. recording actual...
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...
Significance Epigenetically programmed stress adaptation may be a conduit for informing offspring of environmental challenge. We employed ChIP-sequencing to examine effects early environment on epigenetic regulation using hippocampal samples from macaques exposed disruption in maternal care. found decreased H3K4me3 binding at genes critical behavioral response, the most robust being oxytocin receptor gene ( OXTR ), which we observed corresponding decrease RNA expression. Post hoc analysis...
Abstract Individuals vary in their social skills and motivation, the causes of which remain largely unknown. Here we investigated whether an individual’s propensity to interact with others measured within days after birth differences infants’ early environment, may predict a later skill. Specifically, tested neonatal imitation—newborns’ capacity match modelled actions—and experience first months life gaze following (directing attention locations where look), infant macaques ( Macaca mulatta...
Humans evolved a behavioral immune system to avoid infectious disease, including the ability detect sickness in faces. However, it is unclear whether recognize and facial cues of disease malleable, flexibly calibrated by experience. Thus, we experimentally tested can improve adults’ (N = 133) lassitude (sick) face perception, measuring their recognition, avoidance, visual attention naturally sick healthy Participants randomly assigned training about but not control group, were better at...
Perceptual narrowing—a phenomenon in which perception is broad from birth, but narrows as a function of experience—has previously been tested with primate faces. In the first 6 months life, infants can discriminate among individual human and monkey Though ability to faces lost after about 9 months, retain face discrimination, presumably because their experience The current study demonstrates that 4‐ 6‐month‐old are able nonprimate well. visual paired comparison test, ( n = 26) looked...
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...
Abstract In human infants, neonatal imitation and preferences for eyes are both associated with later social communicative skills, yet the relationship between these abilities remains unexplored. Here we investigated whether predicts facial viewing patterns in infant rhesus macaques. We first assessed macaques lipsmacking (a core affiliative gesture) tongue protrusion week of life. When infants were 10–28 days old, presented them an animated macaque avatar displaying a still face followed by...
Abstract Human females exhibit greater social interest and skills relative to males, appearing in infancy, suggesting biological roots; however, male female infants may be treated differently, potentially causing or amplifying sex differences. Here, we tested whether differences motivation emerge infant monkeys ( n = 48) reared a controlled postnatal environment. Compared at 2–3 weeks looked more conspecifics’ faces d 0.65), especially the eyes 1.09) 4–5 exhibited affiliative behaviors...
Neurodevelopmental disorders are on the rise worldwide, with diagnoses that detect derailment from typical milestones by 3 to 4.5 years of age. By then, circuitry in brain has already reached some level maturation inevitably takes neurodevelopment through a different course. There is critical need then develop analytical methods problems much earlier and identify targets for treatment. We integrate data multiple sources, including neonatal auditory brainstem responses (ABR), clinical...
Measuring eye movements remotely via the participant's webcam promises to be an attractive methodological addition in-person eye-tracking in lab. However, there is a lack of systematic research comparing remote web-based with in-lab young children. We report multi-lab study that compared these two measures anticipatory looking task toddlers using WebGazer.js and jsPsych. Results our tested sample 18-27-month-old (N = 125) revealed successfully captured goal-based action predictions, although...
The field of primate cognition studies how primates, including humans, perceive, process, store, retrieve, and use information to guide decision making other behavior. Much this research is motivated by a desire understand these abilities evolved. Large diverse samples from wide range species are vital achieving goal. In reality, however, suffers small sample sizes often limited handful species, which constrains the evolutionary inferences we can draw. We conducted systematic review...
Previous studies report prolonged auditory brainstem response (ABR) in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Despite its promise as a biomarker, it is unclear whether healthy newborns who later develop ASD also show ABR abnormalities. In the current study, we extracted data on 139,154 from their Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, including 321 were diagnosed ASD. We found that had significant prolongations of phase V‐negative latency compared non‐ASD newborns. Newborns...
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...