Jay Seth Rosenblatt (November 18, 1923 – February 16, 2014) held the position of emeritus professor of psychology at Rutgers University-Newark.

His scientific research largely established the study of neonate learning and especially mother-offspring behavior throughout the maternal cycle.

He received several honors and awards during his career, including election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

His mother, a housewife, immigrated from Russia to flee from the pogroms of the early 20th century; his father, a furrier, arrived from Austria as a teenager.

[1] Supported by Schneirla, he began his doctoral work in 1958 at the American Museum of Natural History study of early learning in kittens.

He had a profound impact on launching the academic research careers of many young women and men.As a teenager, Rosenblatt apprenticed in the studio of Ben Wilson under the Works in Progress Administration.

Rosenblatt's painting was influenced not only by Wilson but also by painters such as Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, and Pablo Picasso.

Another major theme of his paintings were of mothers and their children, which would mirror his scientific interest in maternal behavior as a scientist.

For example, in his painting "Mother and older Child," both of his subjective and scientific perspectives of mother-child relationships are expressed, evoking both discomfort and comfort in the viewer.

[1] Rosenblatt met psychoanalyst Max Hertzman while he was a teaching assistant at City College of New York.

[1] He also wanted to find out if psychology as he understood it could be applied to real people, which led him to take a job at the Pediatric Psychiatry Clinic at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital.

[1] Rosenblatt's research in developmental psychobiology focused on early neonate learning and maternal behavior.

He investigated physiological, hormonal, and affective mechanisms and their feedback in maternal and offspring cyclic patterns of behavior (Rosenblatt, 1980).

[4] In 1986, a volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences was published in honor of Jay S. Rosenblatt for his contributions to the field of animal behavior.