Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy
Joseph Jaffe; Beatrice Beebe; Stanley Feldstein; Cynthia L. Crown; Michael D. Jasnow
Blackwell Publishers
2001
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Coordination between infant and adult is thought to be essential to infant development. However, the study is theoretically and methodologically grounded in a dyadic systems perspective and relational psychoanalysis. Our automated apparatus explores the micro-second timing of 4-month infant-adult vocal coordination to predict 12-month infant attachment and cognition. This work also further defines a fundamental dyadic timing matrix that guides the trajectory of infant development.