ArticleDevelopmental psychology2019
In sync: Physiological correlates of behavioral synchrony in infants and mothers.
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- What factors influence dyadic synchrony? A systematic review of the literature on predictors of mother-infant dyadic processes of shared behavior and affect.Infant mental health journal · 2022Pooled it
- Physiological measurement of emotion from infancy to preschool: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Brain and behavior · 2021Pooled it
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- Emotion and Feeling in Parent-Child Dyads: Neurocognitive and Psychophysiological Pathways of Development.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Caregivers' physiological responses during toddler vaccinations: associations with psychological and behavioral responses.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of language context on inter-brain synchrony in bilingual families.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Article
- Mother-child autonomic nervous system interaction as an indication of parental stress: 24-hour cross recurrence plot analysis.PloS one · 2025Article
- Maternal heart rate variability at 3-months postpartum is associated with maternal mental health and infant neurophysiology.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Unique Contributions of Maternal Prenatal and Postnatal Emotion Dysregulation on Infant Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Birth, love, and fear: Physiological networks from pregnancy to parenthood.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Review
- Developmental foundations of physiological dynamics among mother-infant dyads: The role of newborn neurobehavior.Child development · 2022Article
- It Takes Two: An antenatal to postnatal RDoC framework for investigating the origins of maternal attachment and mother-infant social communication.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
- Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Review
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Abstract
Infant-mother behavioral synchrony is thought to scaffold the development of self-regulation in the first years of life. During this time, infants' and mothers' physiological regulation may contribute to dyadic synchrony and, in infants, dyadic synchrony may support infants' physiological regulation. Because the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) serve different regulatory functions, the current study aimed to elucidate relations between infants' and mothers' SNS and PNS functioning and dyadic behavioral synchrony. Skin conductance (SC; SNS index), respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; PNS index), heart period (HP; index of joint SNS and PNS arousal), and behavioral synchrony were assessed in 6-month-old infants (N = 140) and their mothers during a mild social stressor, the Face-to-Face Still-Face paradigm (Tronick, Als, Adamson, Wise, & Brazelton, 1978). Synchrony was related to infants' and mothers' PNS and to mothers' broad autonomic arousal but not to SNS-specific arousal. Higher levels of behavioral synchrony were associated with lower infant RSA but with higher mother HP and RSA at baseline and in each Face-to-Face Still-Face paradigm episode. Therefore, lower RSA infants may have required more synchronous engagement with mothers to support regulation, while higher RSA, less aroused mothers may have been particularly well-attuned to infants' emotions. Findings suggest that each individual's physiological state may contribute to the behavioral functioning of the dyad. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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