Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy: Coordinated Timingin Development [Paperback]

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.Abstract.

Introduction.

Literature Review.

Method.

Results: The Timing of Sound and Silence.

Results: Coordinated Interpersonal Timing (CIT) at Age 4 Months.

Results: CIT Rhythms at Age 4 Months Predicts Outcomes at Age 12 Months.

Discussion.

References.

Acknowledgments.

Commentaries.

Dialogical Nature of Cognition (Philippe Rochat).

Face-to-Face Play: Its Temporal Structure as Predictor of Socioaffective Development (Daniel N. Stern).

Contributors.

Statement of Editorial Policy.

Contributors Include:

Joseph Jaffe M.D. Theoretical Biology and Neuroscience Department of Communication Sciences, N.Y.S. Psychiatric Institute, and Department of Psychiatry (in Neurosurgery), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia

Beatrice Beebe Ph.D. Infancy and Psychoanalysis Department of Communication Sciences, N.Y.S. Psychiatric Institute, and Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University N.Y.U. Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Stanley Feldstein Ph.D. Statistics, Communication and Clinical Research Department of Psychology, U