Effects of mother-infant social interactions on infants' subsequent contingency task performance.
20 3-month-old infants participated in a nonsocial contingency task immediately following a social interaction with their mothers. A measure of the time the dyads spent in a state of vocal turn-taking predicted individual differences in the infants' subsequent performance on the contingency task. These results parallel the social transfer effects we reported earlier in which the turn-taking dimension of social structure was experimentally manipulated to assess its effect on a subsequent nonsocial contingency task.
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Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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D000339:Affect; D001143:Arousal; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012919:Social Behavior; D014705:Verbal Behavior