ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2022
Oscillatory entrainment to our early social or physical environment and the emergence of volitional control.
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- Unpredictable caregiving is associated with disrupted neurophysiological measures of attention and autonomic function in three-month-old infants.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Communicative signals during joint attention promote neural processes of infants and caregivers.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Studying the Developing Brain in Real-World Contexts: Moving From Castles in the Air to Castles on the Ground.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Review
- Neural Entrainment vs. Stimulus-Tracking: A Conceptual Challenge for Rhythmic Perceptual Stimulation in Developmental Neuroscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
An individual's early interactions with their environment are thought to be largely passive; through the early years, the capacity for volitional control develops. Here, we consider: how is the emergence of volitional control characterised by changes in the entrainment observed between internal activity (behaviour, physiology and brain activity) and the sights and sounds in our everyday environment (physical and social)? We differentiate between contingent responsiveness (entrainment driven by evoked responses to external events) and oscillatory entrainment (driven by internal oscillators becoming temporally aligned with external oscillators). We conclude that ample evidence suggests that children show behavioural, physiological and neural entrainment to their physical and social environment, irrespective of volitional attention control; however, evidence for oscillatory entrainment beyond contingent responsiveness is currently lacking. Evidence for how oscillatory entrainment changes over developmental time is also lacking. Finally, we suggest a mechanism through which periodic environmental rhythms might facilitate both sensory processing and the development of volitional control even in the absence of oscillatory entrainment.
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