ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2021
Maternal sensitivity and infant neural response to touch: an fNIRS study.
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- "VID-KIDS" Video-Feedback Interaction Guidance for Depressed Mothers and Their Infants: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression.Infant behavior & development · 2024Article
- Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Stroking in early mother-infant exchanges: The role of maternal tactile biography and interoceptive sensibility.PloS one · 2024Article
- Gender differences in oxyhemoglobin (oxy-Hb) changes during drawing interactions in romantic couples: an fNIRS study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Oxytocin but not naturally occurring variation in caregiver touch associates with infant social orienting.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Therapeutic Alliance as Active Inference: The Role of Therapeutic Touch and Synchrony.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The mother's attunement to her infant's emotional needs influences her use of touching behaviors during mother-infant interactions. Moreover, maternal touch appears to modulate infants' physiological responses to affective touch. However, little is known about the impact of maternal sensitivity on infants' touch processing at a brain level. This study explored the association between maternal sensitivity when infants (N = 24) were 7 months old and their patterns of cortical activation to touch at 12 months. Brain activation was measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Changes in oxy-hemoglobin (HbO2) and deoxy-hemoglobin (HHb) concentrations were measured in the left somatosensory cortex and right temporal cortex while infants received two types of tactile stimulation-affective and discriminative touch. Results showed that a lower maternal sensitivity was associated with a higher HbO2 response for discriminative touch over the temporal region. Additionally, infants of less sensitive mothers tended to present a higher response in HbO2 for affective touch over the somatosensory region. These findings suggest that less sensitive interactions might result in a lower exposure to maternal touch, which can be further related to infants' neural processing of touch.
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