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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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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