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ArticleMultivariate behavioral research

A Person- and Time-Varying Vector Autoregressive Model to Capture Interactive Infant-Mother Head Movement Dynamics.

Meng Chen, Sy-Miin Chow, Zakia Hammal, Daniel S Messinger, Jeffrey F Cohn

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Article in Multivariate behavioral research. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Detecting Critical Change in Dynamics Through Outlier Detection with Time-Varying Parameters.The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology · 2026
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Meng ChenHuman Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
Sy-Miin ChowHuman Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
Zakia HammalThe Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
Daniel S MessingerDepartments of Psychology, Pediatrics, Music Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami.
Jeffrey F CohnThe Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
Pennsylvania State University · USCarnegie Mellon University · USUniversity of Miami · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR000127 · NCATS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI SINOWAY, LAWRENCE I · 2012 to 2015
$17.1M
Automatic Multimodal Affect Detection for Research and Clinical Use R01MH096951 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI COHN, JEFFREY F · 2012 to 2021
$5.6M
Modeling the Dynamics of Early Communication and DevelopmentR01GM105004 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES · PI CHOW, SY-MIIN, COHN, JEFFREY F · 2013 to 2016
$2.1M
The Center for Innovation in Intensive Longitudinal Studies (CIILS)U24AA027684 · NIAAA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI CHOW, SY-MIIN · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000127NIAAA NIH HHS U24 AA027684NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM105004NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH096951
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Head movement is an important but often overlooked component of emotion and social interaction. Examination of regularity and differences in head movements of infant-mother dyads over time and across dyads can shed light on whether and how mothers and infants alter their dynamics over the course of an interaction to adapt to each others. One way to study these emergent differences in dynamics is to allow parameters that govern the patterns of interactions to change over time, and according to person- and dyad-specific characteristics. Using two estimation approaches to implement variations of a vector-autoregressive model with time-varying coefficients, we investigated the dynamics of automatically-tracked head movements in mothers and infants during the Face-Face/Still-Face Procedure (SFP) with 24 infant-mother dyads. The first approach requires specification of a confirmatory model for the time-varying parameters as part of a state-space model, whereas the second approach handles the time-varying parameters in a semi-parametric ("mostly" model-free) fashion within a generalized additive modeling framework. Results suggested that infant-mother head movement dynamics varied in time both within and across episodes of the SFP, and varied based on infants' subsequently-assessed attachment security. Code for implementing the time-varying vector-autoregressive model using two R packages,

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Head MovementsMothersEmotionsFaceFemaleHumansInfantMother-Child Relationsgeneralized additive modelshead movementsparent-infant interactionsstate-space modelsstill-face paradigmTime-varying parametersvector autoregressive models

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PMID32530313
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