Very few studies have assessed infant capacity for bidirectional, contingent communication
at birth, and to our knowledge there are none with preterm infants in the neonatal period …

The present study examines the effects of gestational age and birthweight status on the
development of infant and maternal behaviour as well as the (mutual) predictability between …

Mothers of 47 very low birth weight (< 1,500 gram) infants were interviewed concerning their
feelings and views about interactions with them. Interviews were conducted within the first …

Aims The first purpose of the study was to examine fathers' spontaneous communicative
behavior with their preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, and how father's and …

Mutual regulation during the naturalistic interaction of 150 mothers and their 4-month-old
infants was investigated from a dynamic systems perspective. Microanalyses of a wide …

Infants' and mothers' gaze during three sequences of live face-to-face interaction were
compared to sequences where their interaction was set out of phase, by presenting either …

Conducted a short-term longitudinal study with 26 mother–infant pairs (16 boys, 10 girls)
from White middle-class families, during which data were collected in observations in the …

Each of 30 infants was observed during reunion with the father or mother in a nonstressful
living room setting. Infants responded to reunion with fathers with an intense, brief display of …

OBJECTIVE. With the increased survival of very preterm infants, there is a growing concern
for their developmental and socioemotional outcomes. The quality of the early mother–infant …

This study explores the link between sensitive mother–infant interaction and the fullterm
infant's ability to detect and learn simple contingency relationships. The focus is mainly on …