Annual Research Review: ‘There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world’ – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 65(4), С. 481 - 507

Опубликована: Фев. 23, 2024

During development we transition from coregulation (where regulatory processes are shared between child and caregiver) to self‐regulation. Most early coregulatory interactions aim manage fluctuations in the infant's arousal alertness; but over time, become progressively elaborated encompass other functions such as sociocommunicative development, attention executive control. The fundamental of is help maintain an optimal ‘critical state’ hypo‐ hyperactivity. Here, present a dynamic framework for understanding child–caregiver context psychopathology. Early involve both passive entrainment, through which child's state entrains caregiver's, active contingent responsiveness, caregiver changes their behaviour response behaviours child. Similar principles, interactive asymmetric contingency, drive joint maintenance epistemic states well arousal/alertness, emotion regulation development. We describe three ways can develop atypically, conditions Autism, ADHD, anxiety depression. most well‐known these insufficient leading reduced synchrony, has been shown across range modalities different disorders, target current interventions. also evidence that excessive responsiveness synchrony some circumstances. And show positive feedback develop, mutually amplificatory further critical state. discuss implications findings future intervention research, directions work.

Язык: Английский

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Studying the Developing Brain in Real-World Contexts: Moving From Castles in the Air to Castles on the Ground

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 16

Опубликована: Июль 13, 2022

Most current research in cognitive neuroscience uses standardized non-ecological experiments to study the developing brain. But these approaches do a poor job of mimicking real-world, and thus can only provide distorted picture how operations brain development unfold outside lab. Here we consider future avenues which may lead better appreciation brains dynamically interact with complex real-world environment, cognition develops over time. We raise several problems faced by mainstream methods field, before briefly reviewing novel promising that alleviate some issues. First, examines perception measuring entrainment between activity temporal patterns naturalistic stimuli. Second, our ability parse continuous experience into discrete events, this Third, role children as active agents selecting what they sample from environment one moment next. Fourth, new measure mutual influences others are instantiated suprapersonal networks. Finally, discuss reduce adult biases when designing developmental studies. Together, have great potential further understanding learns process information, control behaviors.

Язык: Английский

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Communicative signals during joint attention promote neural processes of infants and caregivers

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 65, С. 101321 - 101321

Опубликована: Дек. 6, 2023

Communicative signals such as eye contact increase infants' brain activation to visual stimuli and promote joint attention. Our study assessed whether communicative during attention enhance infant-caregiver dyads' neural responses objects, their synchrony. To track mutual processes, we applied rhythmic stimulation (RVS), presenting images of objects 12-month-old infants mothers (n = 37 dyads), while recorded activity (i.e., steady-state evoked potentials, SSVEPs) with electroencephalography (EEG) hyperscanning. Within dyads, either communicatively showed the infant or watched without engagement. cues increased mothers' SSVEPs at central-occipital-parietal, central electrode sites, respectively. Infants significantly more gaze behaviour Dyadic synchrony (SSVEP amplitude envelope correlations, AECs) was not modulated by cues. Taken together, maternal in shape own processes. We show that cortical processing, thus play an essential role social learning. Future studies need elucidate effect on Finally, our introduces RVS dynamics contexts.

Язык: Английский

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The impact of rhythm on visual attention disengagement in newborns and 2-month-old infants

Cognition, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 257, С. 106077 - 106077

Опубликована: Фев. 4, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Temporal patterns in the complexity of child-directed song lyrics reflect their functions

Communications Psychology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 3(1)

Опубликована: Март 24, 2025

Content produced for young audiences is structured to present opportunities learning and social interactions. This research examines multi-scale temporal changes in predictability Child-directed songs. We developed a technique based on Kolmogorov complexity quantify the rate of change textual information content over time. method was applied corpus 922 English, Spanish, French publicly available child adult-directed texts. song lyrics (CDSongs) showed overall lower compared Adult-directed songs (ADsongs), associated with higher number YouTube views. CDSongs relatively at beginning end ADSongs. ADSongs non-uniform rate, but these periodic oscillatory patterns were more predictable These findings suggest that optimal balance between expressivity differs child- content, also timescales potentially support multiple children's needs. In multilingual child-directed songs, an analysis cumulative-compressibility reveals multiscale could different relevant fuctions, e.g. attention, bonding.

Язык: Английский

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Endogenous oscillatory rhythms and interactive contingencies jointly influence infant attention during early infant-caregiver interaction

eLife, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12

Опубликована: Май 28, 2025

Almost all early cognitive development takes place in social contexts. At the moment, however, we know little about neural and micro-interactive mechanisms that support infants’ attention during interactions. Recording EEG naturalistic caregiver-infant interactions (N=66), compare two different accounts. Traditional, didactic perspectives emphasise role of caregiver structuring interaction, whilst active learning models focus on motivational factors, endogenous to infant, guide their attention. Our results show that, already by 12 months, intrinsic processes control attention: fluctuations oscillatory activity associated with changes infant attentiveness. In comparison, was not forwards-predicted gaze or vocal behaviours. Instead, caregivers rapidly modulated behaviours response engagement, greater reactive longer findings suggest shared develops through interactive but asymmetric, infant-led operate across caregiver-child dyad.

Язык: Английский

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Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention

Developmental Psychobiology, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 64(7)

Опубликована: Сен. 22, 2022

Abstract The home auditory environment influences the development of early language abilities, and excessive noise exposure is increasingly linked with deficits in reading scores children. However, fewer studies have considered role shaping attentional processing infancy, a foundational neurocognitive skill relevant for learning. Here, we used passive at‐home recording to investigate how multiple dimensions infants’ environments, including both quantity predictability input, impacts neural behavioral measures sustained attention sociodemographically diverse sample 3‐month‐old infants ( N = 98 infants, 62 males; age M 3.48 months, SD 0.39; 52% Hispanic/Latino). Results indicated that who were exposed more predictable patterns input demonstrated longer overall time during laboratory assessments. In addition, experienced also greater relative increases electroencephalography frontal theta power periods attention, marker information control. These findings provide novel evidence into importance environmental inputs developing cortical circuitry systems from first months postnatal life.

Язык: Английский

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Emergence in complex networks of simple agents

Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 18(3), С. 419 - 462

Опубликована: Май 23, 2023

Abstract Patterns and processes emerge unbidden in complex systems when many simple entities interact. This overview emphasizes the role of networks emergence, notably network topology, modules, motifs, critical phase changes, dual-phase evolution. Several driving mechanisms are examined, including percolation, entrainment, feedback. The account also outlines some modelling paradigms methods used to study presents cases show how emergence occurs, its implications economics other real-world contexts.

Язык: Английский

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Neural Entrainment vs. Stimulus-Tracking: A Conceptual Challenge for Rhythmic Perceptual Stimulation in Developmental Neuroscience

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 13

Опубликована: Май 6, 2022

OPINION article Front. Psychol., 06 May 2022Sec. Developmental Psychology https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.878984

Язык: Английский

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Speaking and listening to inter-brain relationships

Cortex, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 159, С. 54 - 63

Опубликована: Дек. 17, 2022

Studies of inter-brain relationships thrive, and yet many reservations regarding their scope interpretation these phenomena have been raised by the scientific community. It is thus essential to establish common ground on methodological conceptual definitions related this topic open debate about any remaining points uncertainty. We here offer insights improve clarity empirical standards offered social neuroscience studies inter-personal interaction using hyperscanning with a particular focus verbal communication.

Язык: Английский

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