Sentences with phrase «gazing at their infants»

In photos, the primate mothers gazing at their infants bear a remarkable resemblance to «Madonna and Child» paintings.

Not exact matches

Because the overnighting infants tried to get their mother's attention and gazed at her more often — which on the actual test is a positive sign of readiness to learn language — the study's authors concluded that the overnighting infants were more watchful and wary about their mother's whereabouts, indicating more anxiety and insecurity.

We witness it in the eyes of our nursing infant child as he gazes up at us with unquestioning faith, and again in the wild abandon with which our toddler runs and leaps into our arms, never for a moment imagining we won't be ready to catch him.

Depressed mothers gaze less at their infants, rock less, are less active and show poorer responsiveness to their infants.32 Infants may be more drowsy, more distressed and fussy, look less at their mothers and engage in more self - directed actiinfants, rock less, are less active and show poorer responsiveness to their infants.32 Infants may be more drowsy, more distressed and fussy, look less at their mothers and engage in more self - directed actiinfants.32 Infants may be more drowsy, more distressed and fussy, look less at their mothers and engage in more self - directed actiInfants may be more drowsy, more distressed and fussy, look less at their mothers and engage in more self - directed activity.33

She was focused on her infant, halting the conversation many times to gaze at her child, smile and coo, with a twinkle in her eyes that usually indicates someone besotted with love.

To find out, the researchers used eye - tracking technology to assess face scanning and gaze following in 14 sighted infants of blind parents at 6 to 10 months and then again at 12 to 16 months of age.

Mothers who breast - feed their children often describe powerful memories of infants gazing up at them during nursing.

Psychologists agree that the longer an infant gazes at a scene, the more surprising they find it.

She only looked either directly at the infant or averted her gaze while singing nursery rhymes.

As anticipated, the researchers found that infants» brainwaves were more synchronised to the adults» when the adult's gaze met the infant's, as compared to when her gaze was averted Interestingly, the greatest synchronising effect occurred when the adults» head was turned away but her eyes still looked directly at the infant.

New findings by researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I - LABS) at the University of Washington demonstrate for the first time that an early social behavior called gaze shifting is linked to infants» ability to learn new language sounds.

Dr. Marno's team then measured how long the infants gazed at the objects, without any further visual reference to the two speakers.

The study builds on earlier work by Kuhl's team, which found that babies from English - speaking households could learn Mandarin from live tutors, but not from video or audio recordings of Mandarin and from other work at I - LABS establishing the importance of infant eye gaze for language learning.

Just as with the 12 - month - olds, these infants ultimately gazed longer at the objects that had first been presented by the native speaker.

At the beginning and end of the four - week period, researchers counted how often the infants shifted their eye gaze between the tutor and the toys the tutor showed the baby.

That hypothesis would seem to be supported by the work of Ruth Feldman of Bar - Ilan University and colleagues, who in 2007 showed a correlation between the levels of oxytocin (the «love» and «bonding» hormone, which is also associated with the formation of breast milk) during pregnancy and the amount of time that mothers and infants spent gazing at one another.

Taking matters further, researchers have found that chimpanzee and rhesus macaque infants and mothers spend a significant amount time gazing at one another, looking into and recognizing each other's faces.

The researchers were surprised to find that many of the babies who had averted their gazes and showed signs of nystagmus as infants did not display warning signs of autism at age 2.

In a 2010 study, cognitive psychologists Melissa Libertus and Elizabeth Brannon, then both at Duke University, found that infants gazed longer at images of black circles when the number of circles changed, compared with when the quantity was always the same, as long as the ratio between the number of circles was always at least 2 - to - 1.

That is, when an infant first looks at an object, smiles, and then turns that smile towards a social partner, as if the smile anticipates the gaze.

In their longitudinal study, these authors investigated infants» mother - directed gaze and reactivity during the face - to - face as well as still - face episodes of the still - face paradigm, performed at 6 months.

The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) Synchrony during early mother - child interactions has neurophysiological correlates [85] as evidenced though the study of vagal tone [78], cortisol levels [80], and skin conductance [79]; (2) Synchrony impacts infant's cognitive processing [64], school adjustment [86], learning of word - object relations [87], naming of object wholes more than object parts [88]; and IQ [67], [89]; (3) Synchrony is correlated with and / or predicts better adaptation overall (e.g., the capacity for empathy in adolescence [89]; symbolic play and internal state speech [77]; the relation between mind - related comments and attachment security [90], [91]; and mutual initiation and mutual compliance [74], [92]-RRB-; (3) Lack of synchrony is related to at risk individuals and / or temperamental difficulties such as home observation in identifying problem dyads [93], as well as mother - reported internalizing behaviors [94]; (4) Synchrony has been observable within several behavioral or sensorial modalities: smile strength and eye constriction [52]; tonal and temporal analysis of vocal interactions [95](although, the association between vocal interactions and synchrony differs between immigrant (lower synchrony) and non-immigrant groups [84]-RRB-; mutual gaze [96]; and coordinated movements [37]; (5) Each partner (including the infant) appears to play a role in restoring synchrony during interactions: children have coping behaviors for repairing interactive mismatches [97]; and infants are able to communicate intent and to respond to the intent expressed by the mother at the age of 2 months [98].