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The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months
By two-three months, infants show active social expressions during face-to-face interactions. These interactions are important, as they provide the foundation for later emotional regulation and cognition, but little is known about how infant social expressiveness develops. We considered two differen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5155249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27966659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39019 |
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author | Murray, Lynne De Pascalis, Leonardo Bozicevic, Laura Hawkins, Laura Sclafani, Valentina Ferrari, Pier Francesco |
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description | By two-three months, infants show active social expressions during face-to-face interactions. These interactions are important, as they provide the foundation for later emotional regulation and cognition, but little is known about how infant social expressiveness develops. We considered two different accounts. One emphasizes the contingency of parental responsiveness, regardless of its form; the other, the functional architecture account, emphasizes the preparedness of both infants and parents to respond in specific ways to particular forms of behaviour in their partner. We videotaped mother-infant interactions from one to nine weeks, and analysed them with a micro-analytic coding scheme. Infant social expressiveness increased through the nine-week period, particularly after 3 weeks. This development was unrelated to the extent of maternal contingent responsiveness, even to infant social expressions. By contrast, specific forms of response that mothers used preferentially for infant social expressions-mirroring, marking with a smile- predicted the increase in these infant behaviours over time. These results support a functional architecture account of the perceptual and behavioural predispositions of infants and parents that allow young infants to capitalize on relatively limited exposure to specific parental behaviours, in order to develop important social capacities. |
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spelling | pubmed-51552492016-12-28 The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months Murray, Lynne De Pascalis, Leonardo Bozicevic, Laura Hawkins, Laura Sclafani, Valentina Ferrari, Pier Francesco Sci Rep Article By two-three months, infants show active social expressions during face-to-face interactions. These interactions are important, as they provide the foundation for later emotional regulation and cognition, but little is known about how infant social expressiveness develops. We considered two different accounts. One emphasizes the contingency of parental responsiveness, regardless of its form; the other, the functional architecture account, emphasizes the preparedness of both infants and parents to respond in specific ways to particular forms of behaviour in their partner. We videotaped mother-infant interactions from one to nine weeks, and analysed them with a micro-analytic coding scheme. Infant social expressiveness increased through the nine-week period, particularly after 3 weeks. This development was unrelated to the extent of maternal contingent responsiveness, even to infant social expressions. By contrast, specific forms of response that mothers used preferentially for infant social expressions-mirroring, marking with a smile- predicted the increase in these infant behaviours over time. These results support a functional architecture account of the perceptual and behavioural predispositions of infants and parents that allow young infants to capitalize on relatively limited exposure to specific parental behaviours, in order to develop important social capacities. Nature Publishing Group 2016-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5155249/ /pubmed/27966659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39019 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Murray, Lynne De Pascalis, Leonardo Bozicevic, Laura Hawkins, Laura Sclafani, Valentina Ferrari, Pier Francesco The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months |
title | The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months |
title_full | The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months |
title_fullStr | The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months |
title_full_unstemmed | The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months |
title_short | The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months |
title_sort | functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5155249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27966659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39019 |
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