Longitudinal relations among maternal depressive symptoms, maternal mind-mindedness, and infant attachment behavior
Publication date: May 2018Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 51Author(s): Ann E. Bigelow, Beatrice Beebe, Michelle Power, Anna-Lee Stafford, Julie Ewing, Anna Egleson, Tammy KaminerAbstractThe relations among maternal depression risk, maternal mind-mindedness, and infants’ attachment behavior were longitudinally examined in a community sample of mother-infant dyads. Maternal self-reported depression risk was measured at the infant ages of 6 weeks, 4 months, and 12 months. Maternal mind-mindedness, assessed from mothers’ comments about infants’ mental states (e.g., infants’ thoughts, desires, or emotion...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - July 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Inconsolable Doll Task: Prenatal coparenting behavioral dynamics under stress predicting child cognitive development at 18 months
Publication date: Available online 28 May 2018Source: Infant Behavior and DevelopmentAuthor(s): Dana ShaiAbstractStudies have demonstrated that coparenting can be assessed prenatally through playful observational conditions, including simulated baby enactments. Regrettably, there is a lack of empirical research examining how prenatal coparenting under the emotional stress elicited by the distress of a simulated infant predicts children’s cognitive development. The current longitudinal study introduces a novel procedure—the Inconsolable Doll Task—to assess prenatal coparenting behavioral dynamics under the stress of a...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - July 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Simulation-based research to improve infant health outcomes: Using the infant simulator to prevent infant shaking
Publication date: Available online 11 June 2018Source: Infant Behavior and DevelopmentAuthor(s): Kirsten Bechtel, Ambika Bhatnagar, Marc AuerbachAbstractSimulation is a technique that creates a situation or environment to allow persons to experience a representation of a real event for the purpose of practice, learning, evaluation, testing, or to gain understanding of systems or human actions. We will first provide an introduction to simulation in healthcare and describe the two types of simulation-based research (SBR) in the pediatric population. We will then provide an overview of the use of SBR to improve health outcome...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - July 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
fNIRS reveals enhanced brain activation to female (versus male) infant directed speech (relative to adult directed speech) in Young Human Infants
Publication date: August 2018Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 52Author(s): Simone Sulpizio, Hirokazu Doi, Marc H. Bornstein, Joy Cui, Gianluca Esposito, Kazuyuki ShinoharaAbstractWe hypothesized an association between auditory stimulus structure and activity in the brain that underlies infant auditory preference. In a within-infant design, we assessed brain activity to female and male infant directed relative to adult directed speech in 4-month-old infants using fNIRS. Results are compatible with the hypothesis that enhanced frontal brain activation, specifically in prefrontal cortex that is involved in emot...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - July 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Infants’ intermodal numerical knowledge
Publication date: August 2018Source: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 52Author(s): Mohammad Rashbari DibavarAbstractTwo-system theory as the dominant approach in the field of infant numerical representation is characterized by three features: precise representation of small sets of objects, approximate representation of large magnitudes and failure to compare small and large sets. Comparison of single- and multimodal numerical abilities suggests that infants’ performance in multimodal conditions is consistent with these three features. Nevertheless, the influence of multimodal stimulation on infants’ numerical r...
Source: Infant Behavior and Development - July 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
