Moving developmental social neuroscience toward a second-person approach

Autor(en)
Stefanie Höhl, Gabriela Markova
Abstrakt

Infants' cognitive development and learning rely profoundly on their interactions with other people. In the first year, infants become increasingly sensitive to others' gaze and use it to focus their own attention on relevant visual input. However, infants are not passive observers in early social interactions, and these exchanges are characterized by high levels of contingency and reciprocity. Wass and colleagues offer first insights into the neurobehavioral dynamics of caregiver-infant interactions, demonstrating that caregivers' scalp-recorded theta band activity responds to their infant's changes in attention, and parental brain activation is associated with infants' sustenance of attention. This research opens up entirely new ways of exploring caregiver-infant interactions and to understand early social attention as a reciprocal and dynamic process.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Klinische und Gesundheitspsychologie
Journal
PLoS Biology
Band
16
Anzahl der Seiten
7
ISSN
1545-7885
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000055
Publikationsdatum
12-2018
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501005 Entwicklungspsychologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Allgemeine Agrar- und Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine Biochemie, Genetik und Molekularbiologie, Allgemeine Immunologie und Mikrobiologie, Allgemeine Neurowissenschaft
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/be534d6e-eeb5-4f9b-ba68-c3f35256efe5