VI. MATERNAL SENSITIVITY AND DETECTION OF CHANGE IN AUDITORY AND VISUAL STIMULI

Maternal sensitivity was assessed at each phase through the percentage of time each mother-infant dyad spent in synchronous behaviors throughout the 10-min interval. Maternal sensitivity median splits were determined from the scores using the entire set of infants that was included in the cortisol a...

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Published in:Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 2015-12, Vol.80 (4), p.84-90
Main Authors: Thompson, Laura A, Morgan, Gin, Jurado, Kellie A, Gunnar, Megan R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Factors
Auditory Perception
Babies
Child Development - drug effects
Cortisone
Female
Humans
Hydrocortisone - metabolism
Infant
Maternal & child health
Mother-Child Relations
Sensory perception
Stress response
Visual Perception
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Summary:Maternal sensitivity was assessed at each phase through the percentage of time each mother-infant dyad spent in synchronous behaviors throughout the 10-min interval. Maternal sensitivity median splits were determined from the scores using the entire set of infants that was included in the cortisol analyses, for each phase of the study, separately. Infants were grouped into above median and below median maternal sensitivity groups in order to assess how maternal sensitivity contributed to infant learning and memory. Bivariate correlations between infant cortisol values and synchrony scores were uncorrelated at every phase of the study (ps > .10), girls' tendency to show a decreasing cortisol pattern as they grow older was not relevant to analyses of maternal sensitivity and infant performance on the cognitive tasks. Thus, gender was not included as a covariate in the learning and memory analyses at any phase.
ISSN:0037-976X
1540-5834
DOI:10.1111/mono.12213