Trial reportScientific reports2016
The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Infant social interactions and brain development: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Parent-Infant Interaction during the First Year of Life in Infants at High Risk for Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Neural plasticity · 2019Pooled it
- Parent-Guided Developmental Intervention for Infants With Very Low Birth Weight: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Smiling in time: the interactive development of infant smiling with mothers, fathers and strangers.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Article
- New Approaches in Motor Intervention for Infants Aged 0-2 Years with or at High Risk of Unilateral or Bilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Fathers as Key Figures Shaping the Foundations of Early Childhood Development: An Exploratory Longitudinal Study on Web-Based Intervention.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Exploring early life social and executive function development in infants and risk for autism: a prospective cohort study protocol of NICU graduates and infants at risk for cerebral palsy.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Caregiver Observations of Infant Well-Being Before and After Cleft Lip Surgery.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2024Article
- Behavioral and neural measures of infant responsivity increase with maternal multisensory input in non-irritable infants.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Lessons Learned from a Single Institution's Eight Years of Experience with Early Cleft Lip Repair.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Similarities and differences in the functional architecture of mother- infant communication in rhesus macaque and British mother-infant dyads.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Functional neural network connectivity at 3 months predicts infant-mother dyadic flexibility during play at 6 months.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Parent-infant affect synchrony during social and solo play.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Breastfeeding at Any Cost? Adverse Effects of Breastfeeding Pain on Mother-Infant Behavior.Biology · 2023Article
- Positive maternal affect during mother-litter interaction is reduced in new mother rats exhibiting a depression-like phenotype.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Proactive or reactive? Neural oscillatory insight into the leader-follower dynamics of early infant-caregiver interaction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- In the mind of the beholder: The effects of familiarisation on the perception of atypical infant facial configurations.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
By two-three months, infants show active social expressions during face-to-face interactions. These interactions are important, as they provide the foundation for later emotional regulation and cognition, but little is known about how infant social expressiveness develops. We considered two different accounts. One emphasizes the contingency of parental responsiveness, regardless of its form; the other, the functional architecture account, emphasizes the preparedness of both infants and parents to respond in specific ways to particular forms of behaviour in their partner. We videotaped mother-infant interactions from one to nine weeks, and analysed them with a micro-analytic coding scheme. Infant social expressiveness increased through the nine-week period, particularly after 3 weeks. This development was unrelated to the extent of maternal contingent responsiveness, even to infant social expressions. By contrast, specific forms of response that mothers used preferentially for infant social expressions-mirroring, marking with a smile- predicted the increase in these infant behaviours over time. These results support a functional architecture account of the perceptual and behavioural predispositions of infants and parents that allow young infants to capitalize on relatively limited exposure to specific parental behaviours, in order to develop important social capacities.
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