Introduction / Nancy R. Gee, Layla Esposito, Sandra McCune, Lisa S. Freund, and Peggy McCardle --

What do infants know about cats, dogs, and people? Development of a "like-people" representation for nonhuman animals / Paul C. Quinn --

Visual attention and facial identification in human and nonhuman animals / Kun Guo --

Human-animal interaction and the development of executive functions / Daphne S. Ling, Melissa Kelly, and Adele Diamond --

Neural mechanisms underlying human-animal interaction : an evolutionary perspective / C. Sue Carter and Stephen W. Porges --

Affiliation in human-animal interaction / Andrea Beetz and Karen Bales --

The social regulation of neural threat responding / Casey Brown and James A. Coan --

Understanding empathy and psychopathy through cognitive and social neuroscience / Leah M. Lozier, Kristin M. Brethel-Haurwitz, and Abigail A. Marsh --

Genetic components of companion animal behavior / Paul Jones and Sandra McCune --

Advancing the social neuroscience of human-animal interaction : the role of salivary bioscience / Nancy A. Dreschel and Douglas A. Granger --

From the dog's perspective : welfare implications of HAI research and practice / Nancy R. Gee, Karyl J. Hurley, and John M. Rawlings --

Integrative commentary III. A primer in three areas key to future research / Peggy McCardle --

Final commentary. Sociality, therapy, and mechanisms of action / Nathan A. Fox --

Future research : needs and promise / Layla Esposito, Nancy R. Gee, Lisa S. Freund, Sandra McCune, and Peggy McCardle.