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Development of synchrony between activity patterns of mother-infant pair from 4 to 18 months after birth.
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PMID:  21424393     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Motor activities of interacting agents get temporally coordinated to form synchronized actions. Such activity synchrony is observed in several mammalian species and is supposed to play vital roles in human social interactions. Therefore, it has long been proposed that the activity patterns of mother and infant get temporally synchronized. However, few studies to date have empirically investigated the developmental course of such synchrony. The present study simultaneously measured motor activities of mother-infant pairs for about 3.5 consecutive days by actigraph, and investigated the developmental course of mother-infant synchrony. The multiple regression analysis revealed an increase of mother-infant synchrony from 4 to 18 months after birth, giving support to the notion that activity patterns of mother and infant mutually entrain each other through the course of development.
Authors:
Hirokazu Doi; Mikako Kato; Shota Nishitani; Kazuyuki Shinohara
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-3-18
Journal Detail:
Title:  The journal of physiological sciences : JPS     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1880-6562     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-3-22     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101262417     Medline TA:  J Physiol Sci     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto-cho, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan.
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