How Primate Mothers and Infants Communicate: Characterizing Interaction in Mother–Infant Studies

Botero, María Mercedes

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02669-5_5

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“…Results from primate and rodent models have implicated physical contact and touch (tactile stimulation) as significant concomitants of an infant's ability to regulate its own response to stress, and maternal behavior and proximity are considered the most important regulatory factors (Champagne & Meaney, 2007;Menard, Champagne, & Meaney, 2004). In primates, because of secondary altriciality, mothers play a fundamental role in helping infants learn how to self-regulate their emotional states (Botero, 2014). Moreover, studies have shown that gentle stroking touch in humans has similar beneficial neurodevelopmental effects to those reports from licking and grooming in rodents (McGlone, Wessberg, & Olausson, 2014).…”

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The Functions of Mutual Touch in Full-Term and Very Low-Birthweight/Preterm Infant-Mother Dyads: Associations with Infant Affect and Emotional Availability During Face-to-Face Interactions

Mantis¹,

Stack²

2018

IJCP

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the communicative functions of mutual touch during mother-infant interactions and their relation with infants’ affect and the quality of the mother-infant relationship. The two normal periods of the Still-Face procedure were examined for mothers and their 5½-month-old full-term (n=40) and very low-birthweight/preterm (VLBW/preterm; n=40) infants. The Functions of Mother-Infant Mutual Touch Scale was used to code the function of each mutual touch. Results indicated that full-term infant-mother dyads spent significantly more time engaged in playful and regulatory mutual touch compared to VLBW/preterm infant-mother dyads who spent significantly more time engaged in attention-centered, unbalanced, and guided mutual touch. Infant smiling was found to significantly co-occur with playful mutual touch for both the full-term and VLBW/preterm infants, while fretting co-occurred with unbalanced mutual touch for VLBW/preterm infants. Higher levels of maternal sensitivity and regulatory mutual touch were associated for full-term dyads, while lower levels of maternal sensitivity were associated with unbalanced mutual touch for VLBW/preterm dyads. Results from this study enable a more comprehensive understanding of the functions of mutual touching, and suggest key differences in which mutual touching behaviours are organized with infants’ affect and relationship dimensions between mothers and their infants.

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The Functions of Mutual Touch in Full-Term and Very Low-Birthweight/Preterm Infant-Mother Dyads: Associations with Infant Affect and Emotional Availability During Face-to-Face Interactions

Mantis¹,

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2018

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“…This knowledge entails a change in the way we conduct observations of the development of emotions: Instead of understanding the expression of emotions as individual reflexive processes (as postulated in the facial expression of BEs), we move towards understanding the development of emotions in the context of mother-infant interaction. More specifically, this change in approach suggests that touch, together with other modes of communication, must be adopted to understand the different ways in which mother and infant interact in the context of their social community (for the methodological implications of adopting this approach to the observation of mother-infant interaction, see Botero, 2014).…”

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Bringing Touch Back to the Study of Emotions in Human and Non-Human Primates: A Theoretical Exploration

Botero¹

2018

IJCP

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This paper provides a theoretical exploration of how comparative research on the expression of emotions has traditionally focused on the visual mode and argues that, given the neurophysiological, developmental, and behavioral evidence that links touch with social interactions, focusing on touch can become an ideal mode to understand the communication of emotions in human and non-human primates. This evidence shows that touch is intrinsically linked with social cognition because it motivates human and non-human animals, from birth, to form social bonds. It will be shown that touch is one of the modes of interaction used by the mother-infant or caregiver-infant dyad that facilitates the expression of emotions by the infant (and later the expression of emotions by the adult that the infant has become) in ways that are understood by other members of the group.

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“…Part 2 considers the elements of social communication, including texts on chimpanzees learning sign language (Jensvold 2014), original theoretical view on the study of communication in primates (Botero 2014), the universality of basic emotions (Gaspar, Esteves and Arriaga 2014), the evolution of joint attention (Racine et al 2014), and ways of understanding and interpreting mental states in psychology (Nagataki 2014).…”

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Pointing in the right direction. A discussion of The evolution of social communication in primates, eds. M. Pina and N. Gontier

Dębska

2015

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Abstract. The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates, edited by Marco Pina and Natalie Gontier is an important contribution to the current debates on language evolution. The volume includes texts discussing the emergence of basic social skills connected with language, arguments for vocal and gestural protolanguage, and theories of development of symbolic and compositional language in the history of humanity. In this review, I present the structure and content of the book, but also highlight issues that reflect key controversies in this research area, such as the transition from gestures to speech and from simple vocalizations to modern language. I discuss one specific issue, pointing in nonhuman primates and human children, to offer some remarks on theoretical and empirical criteria for using psychological concepts in debates on social communication in primates.

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How Primate Mothers and Infants Communicate: Characterizing Interaction in Mother–Infant Studies

Cited by 5 publications

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The Functions of Mutual Touch in Full-Term and Very Low-Birthweight/Preterm Infant-Mother Dyads: Associations with Infant Affect and Emotional Availability During Face-to-Face Interactions

The Functions of Mutual Touch in Full-Term and Very Low-Birthweight/Preterm Infant-Mother Dyads: Associations with Infant Affect and Emotional Availability During Face-to-Face Interactions

Bringing Touch Back to the Study of Emotions in Human and Non-Human Primates: A Theoretical Exploration

Pointing in the right direction. A discussion of The evolution of social communication in primates, eds. M. Pina and N. Gontier

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