Maternal Responsiveness to Infants in Three Societies: The United States, France, and Japan

Bornstein, Marc H.; Tamis‐LeMonda, Catherine S.; Tal, Joseph; Ludemann, Pamela M.; Toda, Sueko; Rahn, Charles W.; Pêcheux, Marie-Germaine; Azuma, Hiroshi; Vardi, Danya

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb01663.x

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“…Various windows for reaction latencies in mother-infant interaction have been found and discussed in the literature. Values range from very short latencies of ≤1 s [73], over 2-3 s [29,41,74] up to 3-5 s [75] and 5-7 s [76] as limits for the experience of contingency for infants. Applying the concept of midrange matching to this range of reaction latencies, midrange maternal reaction latency could then serve either as a grouping criterion for a new independent variable or, in relation to the existing groups, the reaction latencies of the high matchers could be tested.…”

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Influence of Dyadic Matching of Affect on Infant Self-Regulation

Noe¹,

Schluckwerder²,

Reck³

2015

Psychopathology

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Background/Aims: Affective behavioural matching during face-to-face interaction fosters the transition from mutual regulation to infant self-regulation. Optimum midrange models of mother-infant interaction hold that moderate degrees of dyadic matching facilitate infant socio-emotional development. The aim of this study was to examine which degree of dyadic matching is most beneficial for infant self-regulation. Methods: To evaluate this model, 3 groups of highly, midrange and poorly matched dyads were created from a mixed sample of 68 dyads with healthy and post-partum depressed mothers and their infants (age range = 1-8 months, mean age = 3.9 months). Mother-infant interactions were videotaped in the face-to-face still-face paradigm (FFSF) and micro-analytically coded. Specifically, the relation between affective behavioural matching in FFSF play and infant positive and negative affect in FFSF still face and FFSF reunion was explored. Results: Contrary to our expectation, we found a monotonous trend for all groups: the more matching in FFSF play, the more positive and less negative affect the infant showed in FFSF still face and FFSF reunion, respectively. Conclusion: The present findings further illuminate the association between different degrees of dyadic matching in early mother-infant interaction and infant self-regulation. Further research should focus on the integration and replication of findings and conceptual approaches to further evaluate and refine the concept of midrange matching and make it applicable to therapeutic work with mothers and their infants.

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Influence of Dyadic Matching of Affect on Infant Self-Regulation

Noe¹,

Schluckwerder²,

Reck³

2015

Psychopathology

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“…There is evidence that infants in different cultures receive different forms of learning about where to look (Bornstein et al 1992). For example, in western cultures, soothing often involves turning the infant's attention outward toward novel environmental objects (Harman et al 1997) while in East Asia soothing tends to involve quiet interaction with the caregiver.…”

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Integrating brain, cognition and culture

Posner

Rothbart

2017

J Cult Cogn Sci

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Why should there now appear a journal devoted to integrating cognition and culture? We argue that new methods for examining the origin of brain networks that shape the developing mind provide the basis for such integration. These methods include imaging the human brain at rest or when performing tasks and examining individual differences in network efficiency by studying people with different forms of critical genes. In this article we outline a framework for studying attention, and then apply it to the study of language and number processing. Each domain illustrates how cultural differences influence the brain networks involved in cognition. In each case caregivers often serve as representative of the culture in helping to shape the brain.

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“…Child-directed speech, also called motherese, has features different from those present in the exchanges between adult conversational partners (Bornstein, Putnick, Cote, Haynes, & Suwalsky, 2015;Bornstein et al, 1992). Child-directed speech often exaggerates intonation contours to emphasise characteristics of certain words (Herold, Nygaard, & Namy, 2011), uses simplified & Tubul-Lavy, 2015), and higher pitch (Smith & Trainor, 2008).…”

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Type of iconicity matters in the vocabulary development of signing children.

Ortega

Sumer

Özyürek

2017

Developmental Psychology

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Recent research on signed as well as spoken language shows that the iconic features of the target language might play a role in language development. Here we ask further whether different types of iconic depictions modulate children's preferences for certain types of signreferent links during vocabulary development for objects in sign language. Results from a picture description task indicate that lexical signs with two possible variants are used in different proportions by deaf signers from different age groups. While pre-school and schoolaged children favoured variants representing actions associated with their referent (e.g., a writing hand for the sign PEN), adults preferred variants representing the perceptual features of those objects (e.g., upwards index finger representing a thin, elongated object for the sign PEN). Deaf parents interacting with their children, however, used action and perceptual based variants in equal proportion and favoured action variants more than adults signing to other adults. We propose that when children are confronted with two variants for the same concept, they initially prefer action-based variants because they give them the opportunity to link a linguistic label to familiar schemas linked to their action/motor experiences. Our results echo findings showing a bias for action based depictions in the development of iconic co-speech gestures suggesting a modality bias for such representations during development.

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Maternal Responsiveness to Infants in Three Societies: The United States, France, and Japan

Cited by 137 publications

References 44 publications

Influence of Dyadic Matching of Affect on Infant Self-Regulation

Influence of Dyadic Matching of Affect on Infant Self-Regulation

Integrating brain, cognition and culture

Type of iconicity matters in the vocabulary development of signing children.

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