Information processing efficiency and regulation at five months

Diaz, Anjolii; Bell, Martha Ann

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.12.011

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“…This baseline procedure quiets the infant, yields minimal eye and gross motor movements, and allows the infant to tolerate the EEG cap (e.g. Bell, 2001, 2012; Diaz & Bell, 2011; Fox, Henderson, Rubin, Calkins & Schmidt, 2001). …”

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“…Other infant work has demonstrated that larger baseline and task specific 6–9 Hz EEG power values at frontal locations are associated with better performance on an attention task (Diaz & Bell, 2011) and on working memory tasks that rely on attention shifting (e.g., Bell, 2002; Bell & Wolfe, 2007; Cuevas & Bell, 2011). Taken together, these results suggest that neural activity within the frontal cortex may play a particularly important role in the development of infants’ observed attention behavior.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Bell, 2001, 2002, 2012; Bell & Fox, 1992; Diaz & Bell, 2011; Fox et al, 2001; Marshall, Bar-Haim, & Fox, 2002; Orekhova, et al, 2001). In addition, the 6–9 Hz developmental alpha band has been suggested to approximate the adult alpha band, which has been associated with attentional modulation of cortical activity in adult work (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Maternal behavior predicts infant neurophysiological and behavioral attention processes in the first year.

Swingler¹,

Perry²,

Calkins³

et al. 2017

Developmental Psychology

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We apply a biopsychosocial conceptualization to attention development in the first year and examine the role of neurophysiological and social processes on the development of early attention processes. We tested whether maternal behavior measured during two mother-child interaction tasks when infants (N=388) were 5 months predicted infant medial frontal (F3/F4) EEG power and observed attention behavior during an attention task at 10 months. After controlling for infant attention behavior and EEG power in the same task measured at an earlier 5-month time point, results indicated a significant direct and positive association from 5-month maternal positive affect to infant attention behavior at 10 months. However, maternal positive affect was not related to medial frontal EEG power. In contrast, 5-month maternal intrusive behavior was associated with infants’ task-related EEG power change at the left frontal location, F3, at 10 months of age. The test of indirect effects from 5-month maternal intrusiveness to 10-month infant attention behavior via infants’ EEG power change at F3 was significant. These findings suggest that the development of neural networks serving attention processes may be one mechanism through which early maternal behavior is related to infant attention development in the first year and that intrusive maternal behavior may have a particularly disruptive effect on this process.

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Maternal behavior predicts infant neurophysiological and behavioral attention processes in the first year.

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Calkins³

et al. 2017

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“…Others have also found that distraction strategies, in which children shift their attention away from the source of arousal and orient toward a more positive or neutral stimulus, may assist the child in managing early frustration and fear responses (Calkins, Smith, Gill & Johnson, 1998; Diaz & Bell, 2011; Stifter & Braungart, 1995). Indeed, much research, including contingency studies, has demonstrated that infants who avert their gaze or distract away from a distressing stimulus (i.e., frustrating or fearful) show reduced negative affect in the moment, and less anxious behavior over time (Crockenberg & Leerkes, 2004, 2006; Stifter & Spinrad, 2002).…”

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Neurophysiological correlates of attention behavior in early infancy: Implications for emotion regulation during early childhood

Perry

Swingler

Calkins

et al. 2016

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Current theoretical conceptualizations of regulatory development suggest that attention processes and emotion regulation processes share common neurophysiological underpinnings and behavioral antecedents such that emotion regulation abilities may build upon early attentional skills. To further elucidate this proposed relationship, we tested whether early neurophysiological processes measured during an attention task in infancy predicted in-task attention behavior, and whether infant's attention behavior was subsequently associated with their ability to regulate emotion in early childhood (N=388). Results indicated that, greater EEG power change (from baseline to task) at medial frontal locations (F3 and F4) during an attention task at 10 months were associated with concurrent observed behavioral attention. Specifically, greater change in EEG power at the right frontal location (F4) was associated with more attention, and greater EEG power at the left frontal location (F3) was associated with less attention, indicating a potential right hemisphere specialization for attention processes already present in the first year of life. In addition, after controlling for 5-month attention behavior, increased behavioral attention at 10-months was negatively associated with children's observed frustration to emotional challenge at age 3. Finally, the indirect effects from 10-month EEG power change at F3 and F4 to 3-year emotion regulation via infants' 10-month behavioral attention were significant, suggesting that infant's attention behavior is one mechanism through which early neurophysiological activity is related to emotion regulation abilities in childhood.

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“…Some of our initial findings show associations between attentional processing measures of looking time, emotion regulation skills during distress, and frontal EEG activity (Diaz & Bell, 2009). Specifically, 5-month-old infants who process information quickly (i.e., are short lookers during familiarization of a stimulus, as opposed to long lookers; Colombo, Mitchell, Coldren, & Freeseman, 1991), appear less distressed during the arm restraint task, as indicated by behaviors and frontal EEG activity during the task.…”

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confidence: 96%