Maternal Responses to Infant Distress: Linkages Between Specific Emotions and Neurophysiological Processes.
Objective.The goals of the current article were to test the presence of an association between mothers’ neural activity (measured by frontal cortical alpha asymmetry) and their specific emotions (measured by observed facial expressions) in response to infant distress and the moderation of this relat...
| Published in: | Parenting: Science & Practice Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 200 - 225 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Sep2017
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