Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience

Current Directions in Psychological Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 20, 2025

Early caregiving experiences have strong, persistent links to emotion regulation. In this article we offer a view that the content represented in emotion-regulation neurobiology part reflects consolidated interpersonal-affective memories abstracted from early experiences. We suggest these memories, referred here as “attachment schemas,” are by cortical-subcortical (re)activations. Neural circuitry involving functional connections between subcortical and midline cortical regions is well positioned generate predictive inferences attachment schemas implications for Although speculative, perspective motivated convergence of empirical findings cognitive developmental neuroscience. Situating affective neural predictions within neurodevelopmental framework has great potential uncover mechanisms ultimately build toward more complete understanding emotional well-being.

Language: Английский

The Nature of Love Revisited: How Social Bonds Shape Development

Developmental Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 28(3)

Published: March 4, 2025

Language: Английский

The connecting brain in context: How adolescent plasticity supports experiential learning and development

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 71, P. 101486 - 101486

Published: Nov. 28, 2024

Language: Английский