Links between Infant Temperament and Neurophysiological Measures of Attention to Happy and Fearful Faces

Autor/inn/en	Martinos, Marina; Matheson, Anna; de Haan, Michelle
Titel	Links between Infant Temperament and Neurophysiological Measures of Attention to Happy and Fearful Faces
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53 (2012) 11, S.1118-1127 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9630
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02599.x
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Parent Child Relationship; Control Groups; Child Rearing; Infant Behavior; Correlation; Physiology; Neurology; Emotional Response; Individual Differences; Attention Control; Questionnaires; Parent Attitudes; Task Analysis; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Diagnostic Tests; Nonverbal Communication; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England); Rothbart Infant Behavior Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kindererziehung; Korrelation; Physiologie; Neurologie; Emotionales Verhalten; Individueller Unterschied; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Fragebogen; Elternverhalten; Aufgabenanalyse; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Ausland
Abstract	Background: Developing control of attention helps infants to regulate their emotions, and individual differences in attention skills may shape how infants perceive and respond to their socio-emotional environments. This study examined whether the temperamental dimensions of self-regulation and negative emotionality relate to infants' attention skills and whether the emotional content of the attended stimulus affects this relation. Methods: Event-related potentials provided a neurophysiological index of attention (Nc) while 3 to 13-month-old infants viewed images of happy and fearful facial expressions. Temperament was measured via parent report using the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised. Results: The peak latency of the Nc was slower for infants with lower regulatory capacity, independent of facial expression. The amplitude of the Nc over right fronto-central electrodes was related to both self-regulation and negative emotionality, but the effects differed by emotion: infants with better self-regulation had larger Nc responses to fearful faces, and infants scoring higher on negative emotionality had larger Nc responses to happy faces. These results are discussed in relation to the development of executive attention networks and their modulation by the amygdala. (Contains 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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