Dr. Amanda Dettmer has her Ph.D. in neuroscience and behavior.
She has been studying the mother-infant bond in rhesus monkeys for over 10 years.
I asked Dr. Dettmer some questions about animal behavior and ASMR.
She did a terrific job of summarizing her knowledge, experiences, and research in primatology and applying it to ASMR.
Dr. Dettmer even suggests some simple experiments that could help to identify the biology of ASMR.
Below are my questions in bold, followed by her replies in italics.
Slow and methodical hand movements are common to many ASMR videos.
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