Similarities and differences in the functional architecture of mother- infant communication in rhesus macaque and British mother-infant dyads.

ABSTRACT: 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 mother-infant interactions in this population and used a comparative-developmental perspective to directly compare them to the ones reported in humans. Here, we investigate the development of infant communication, and maternal responsiveness in the two groups. We video-recorded mother-infant interactions in both groups in naturalistic settings and analysed them with the same micro-analytic coding scheme. Results show that infant social expressiveness and maternal responsiveness are similarly structured in humans and macaques. Both human and macaque mothers use specific mirroring responses to specific infant

SUBMITTER: Sclafani V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10423724 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature