Although interest in the neurobiology of parent–infant bonding is a century old,
neuroimaging of the human parental brain is recent. After summarizing current comparative …

Brain networks that govern parental response to infant signals have been studied with
imaging techniques over the last 15 years. The complex interaction of thoughts and …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this
review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We …

Proxemics and neuro-cognitive literature have suggested a close relationship between
social and action functions of near-body space. Here we asked whether interpersonal-social …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Research on the neurobiology of
attachment, pioneered by scholars in the generation that followed the discovery of social …

Purpose This paper identifies the effects of different dimensions of the cuteness (ie baby
schema cuteness and whimsical cuteness) of artificial intelligence (AI) agents on attachment …

Accumulating behavioral and neurophysiological studies support the idea of infantile (cute)
faces as highly biologically relevant stimuli rapidly and unconsciously capturing attention …

As parents in modern western societies face increasing pressures that strain their ability to
provide quality childcare, it is important to consider the neural and hormonal bases of …