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

Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Immunology and Microbiology(all), Neuroscience(all)

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/moving-developmental-social-neuroscience-toward-a-secondperson-approach(be534d6e-eeb5-4f9b-ba68-c3f35256efe5).html