Outcomes of early parent ‐child adrenocortical attunement in the high‐risk offspring of depressed parents
This study examined the impact of parent‐child attunement of morning cortisol on parenting and child outcomes in dyads with and without parental depression. Participants included 142 parent‐child dyads (3–5 years‐old) who provided morning cortisol samples at Wave 1, and 98 dyads returned for the 3‐year follow‐up at Wave 2. Results indicated that for parents with a history of depression and for female children, stronger attunement predicted increases in parental hostility from Wave 1 to Wave 2. For females only, stronger attunement was related to children's depressive symptoms at Wave 1 and Wave 2. Stronger attu...
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephanie M. Merwin, Chelsey Barrios, Victoria C. Smith, Edward P. Lemay, Lea R. Dougherty Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Investigating the role of articulatory organs and perceptual assimilation of native and non ‐native fricative place contrasts
Developmental Psychobiology,Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 347-347, April 2018. (Source: Developmental Psychobiology)
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Developmental Psychobiology, Ahead of Print. (Source: Developmental Psychobiology)
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Effects of neonatal handling on play and anxiety in F344 and Lewis rats
Developmental Psychobiology, EarlyView. (Source: Developmental Psychobiology)
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Developmental Psychobiology, Ahead of Print. (Source: Developmental Psychobiology)
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Manual dexterity in young and healthy older adults. 2. Association with cognitive abilities
Developmental Psychobiology, EarlyView. (Source: Developmental Psychobiology)
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Developmental Psychobiology, Ahead of Print. (Source: Developmental Psychobiology)
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Sibling experience modulates perceptual narrowing toward adult faces in the first year of life
Abstract During the first year of life face discrimination abilities narrow toward adult human faces of the most frequently encountered ethnic group/s. Earlier studies showed that perceptual learning under laboratory‐training protocols can modulate this narrowing process. Here we investigated whether natural experience acquired in everyday settings with an older sibling's face can shape the trajectory of perceptual narrowing towards adult faces. Using an infant‐controlled habituation procedure we measured discrimination of adult (Experiment 1) and child faces (Experiment 2) in 3‐ and 9‐ month‐old infants with and...
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Valentina Proietti, Marta Rigoldi, Emanuela Croci, Viola Macchi Cassia Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Investigating the role of articulatory organs and perceptual assimilation of native and non ‐native fricative place contrasts
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Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: ERRATUM Source Type: research

Effects of neonatal handling on play and anxiety in F344 and Lewis rats
Abstract Play is an important part of normal childhood development and seen in many mammals, including rats. To better understand the interplay between genotype and postnatal experiences, the effects of neonatal handling on play were assessed in Lewis (LEW) and Fischer 344 (F344) rats. Handled litters experienced brief periods of separation during the first two postnatal weeks. F344 rats were less likely to direct nape contacts toward an untreated Sprague–Dawley (SD) partner and less likely to rotate to a supine position in response to a nape contact. When compared to rats from control litters, handled LEW, and F344 rats...
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephen M. Siviy Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Manual dexterity in young and healthy older adults. 2. Association with cognitive abilities
Abstract Currently, little is known about the cognitive constraints underlying manual dexterity decline in aging. Here, we assessed the relationship between cognitive function and dexterity in 45 young and 55 healthy older adults. Effects of gender on the cognition‐dexterity association were also explored. Cognitive assessment comprised neuropsychological tests of executive function, working memory, attention, and memory. Dexterity assessment included evaluation of movement times and kinematics during performance of unimanual and bimanual tasks of the Purdue Pegboard Test. Cognitive and dexterity group differences were e...
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Olena Vasylenko, Marta M. Gorecka, Claudia Rodr íguez‐Aranda Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Parent emotion regulation socializes children's adaptive physiological regulation
This study examined whether parents’ physiological and emotion regulation abilities corresponded to children's physiological and emotional responding to a structured laboratory‐based disappointment task. Ninety‐seven 3‐ to 7‐year‐olds (56 girls; M = 5.79 years) and one parent participated in a multi‐method assessment of parents’ and children's regulatory functioning. Direct (coaching children to use reappraisal) and indirect (resting physiology, dispositional use of reappraisal) aspects of parents’ regulatory abilities were assessed. As expected, an adaptive pattern of parent regulatory abilities comp...
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - February 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily W. Shih, Laura E. Qui ñones‐Camacho, Elizabeth L. Davis Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research

Parent emotion regulation socializes children's adaptive physiological regulation
Developmental Psychobiology, EarlyView. (Source: Developmental Psychobiology)
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - February 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Developmental Psychobiology, Ahead of Print. (Source: Developmental Psychobiology)
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - February 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Trajectories of frontal brain activity and socio ‐emotional development in children
Abstract Asymmetric frontal brain activity is thought to reflect individual differences in approach‐ and avoidance‐oriented motivation and emotional experience. Using a prospective longitudinal design, the authors investigated whether trajectories of frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry in children (Mage = 6.39 years at enrollment) predicted subjective, behavioral, and autonomic indices of socioemotional processes. Resting frontal EEG activity was measured across four separate repeated assessments spanning approximately 2 years. Children's EEG asymmetry across assessments was best characterized by two traje...
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - February 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kristie L. Poole, Diane L. Santesso, Ryan J. Van Lieshout, Louis A. Schmidt Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research