Using optogenetic dyadic animal models to elucidate the neural basis for human parent-infant social knowledge transmission

• Main Authors: Leong, Victoria, Ham, Gao Xiang, Augustine, George James
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Social sciences::Psychology; Social Learning; Optogenetics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154052
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Healthy early development depends on a warm reciprocal relationship between parent and offspring, where parent and infant interact in close temporal co-ordination as if engaged in a “dyadic dance” of glances, gestures, smiles and words (Stern, 1985; Gianino and Tronick, 1988). Most, if not all, earl...