Body ownership and awareness has recently become an active topic of research in adults
using paradigms such as the "rubber hand illusion" and "enfacement" [1–11]. These studies …

Increasing evidence shows that maternal touch may promote emotion regulation in infants,
however less is known about how parental higher-order social cognition abilities are …

Interoception—the ability to perceive and respond to internal bodily sensations—is
fundamental for the continuous regulation of physiological processes. Recently, it has been …

The ability to differentiate one's body from others is a fundamental aspect of social perception
and has been shown to involve the integration of sense modalities attributable to the self. …

In the last decade, philosophy, neuroscience and psychology alike have paid increasing
attention to the study of interpersonal affective touch, which refers to the emotional and …

Multisensory integration is a powerful mechanism for constructing body awareness and key
for the sense of selfhood. Recent evidence has shown that the specialised C tactile modality …

Studies on adults have demonstrated that the perception our own body can be manipulated
by varying both temporal and spatial properties of multisensory information. While human …

In the last decades, non-invasive and portable neuroimaging techniques, such as functional
near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), have allowed researchers to study the mechanisms …

Background Pregnancy has been shown to be times in a woman’s life particularly prone to
mental health issues, however a substantial percentage of mothers report subclinical …

Smartphone use is ubiquitous in the lives of parents, and an emerging area of research is
investigating how parental smartphone use during parent–child interactions affects children’s …