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Gender, Culture, and Individual Differences in Communication, Attention, and Emotion
This study is epidemiological in nature and attempts to describe developmental continuities and discontinuities in emotion, attention, and communication between Caucasian and Hispanic-American mother-infant dyads.

Attention and Emotion Between Birth and 3 Months
This study examines the changes in attention-emotion pairings across the key developmental transition from endogenous to exogenous smiling. So far we have found that in the first three months, smiling tends to be coupled with the developmental emergence of active attention towards mother. This study is being conducted in collaboration with Dr. M. Lavelli, University of Verona, Italy. See online publications with Dr. Lavelli.

The Development of Emotion Frames Between 2 and 5 months
This is a study of emotion and attention development in a sample of Caucasian and Hispanic-American mother-infant dyads. Data collection is ongoing and a qualitative analysis of a single case is being done. This study is being conducted in collaboration with Dr. Andrea Garvey, ChicoAmerican River College, Sacramento, CA.

Engendering change in the movement and communication difficulties experienced by adults with the label of autism: A dynamic systems approach
In this study, 6 adults with autism participated in Body Awareness exercises with certified Feldenkrais "Functional Integration" practitioners for 48 sessions over 16 weeks. The study focuses on changes in the participants' nonverbal communication with the Feldenkrais practitioners. In collaboration with Drs. Sally Young and Ryan Nagy.

The effects of Rosen Method Body Work on sufferers of chronic back pain
Six adults with untreatable back pain received 16 seccions from certified Rosen Method practitioners in California. Assessments were made both before and after treatments, as well as self reports made daily during treatment. Sessions were audiorecorded and transcribed to show details of the process of change. This study is fundedas a pilot project from the Utah Center for Exploring Mind-Body Interactions, NIH, Principal Investigator, Yoshi Nakamura, http://www.painresearch.utah.edu/yn_bio.htm.

Two Dyads: A Microgenetic Study of the Emergence of Individual Difference between 1 month and 2 years
Two mother-infant dyads were videotaped weekly during the first year, and every two weeks during the second year of the infants' lives. We choose one dyad who has a normal course of emotional development over this period, compared to another dyad that has more difficulty with emotional communication. We are examining the week-by-week changes in the the communication process for each dyad during free-play activities. The goals are to understand how "big" developmental changes emerge from moment-to-moment and week-to-week shifts in the communication system; to examine the role of the body in being relatively open or relatively closed to the partner; to show how communication patterns that persist over long periods during infancy can change the infant's somatic awareness of self and other
   
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