This review summarizes early human motor development. From early fetal age motor
behavior is based on spontaneous neural activity: activity of networks in the brainstem and …

This review summarizes human perception and processing of face and gaze signals. Face
and gaze signals are important means of non-verbal social communication. The review …

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Introduction: The Importance of Motor Development Motor behavior is critical to developmental …

Narrative, the creation of imaginative projects and experiences displayed in expressions of
movement and voice, is how human cooperative understanding grows. Human …

Background Although there is data on the spontaneous behavioural repertoire of the fetus,
studies on their behavioural responses to external stimulation are scarce. Aim, Methods The …

The notion of “deontic rights”—the capacity of an individual to determine action—is
described as a tool to analyze human power plays in the turn‐by‐turn unfolding of social …

Object play is essential for infant learning, and infants spend most of their day with objects.
Young infants learn about objects and their properties through multimodal exploration …

Taking a psychological and philosophical outlook, we approach making as an embodied
and embedded skill via the skilled artisan's experience of having a corporeal, nonlinguistic …

The capacity to engage in collective intentionality is a key aspect of human sociality. Social
coordination might not be distinctive of humans—various nonhuman animals engage in …

The vast majority of humans are right-handed, but how and when this bias emerges during
human ontogenesis is still unclear. We propose an approach that explains postnatal …