The functional neuroanatomy of the evolving parent–infant relationship

Infant survival and the development of secure and cooperative relationships are central to the future of the species. In humans, this relies heavily on the evolving early parent–infant social and affective relationship. While much is known about the behavioural and psychological components of this relationship, relatively little is known about the underlying functional neuroanatomy. Affective and social neuroscience has helped to describe the main adult brain networks involved, but has so far engaged very little with developmental findings. In this review, we seek to highlight future avenues for research by providing a coherent framework for describing the parent–infant relationship over the first 18 months. We provide an outline of the evolving nature of the relationship, starting with basic orienting and recognition processes, and culminating in the infant's attainment of higher socio-emotional and cognitive capacities. Key social and affective interactions, such as communication, cooperative play and the establishment of specific attachments propel the development of the parent–infant relationship. We summarise our current knowledge of the developing infant brain in terms of structure and function, and how these relate to the emergent abilities necessary for the formation of a secure and cooperative relationship with parents or other caregivers. Important roles have been found for brain regions including the orbitofrontal, cingulate, and insular cortices in parent–infant interactions, but it has become clear that much more information is needed about the developmental time course and connectivity of these regions.

The functional neuroanatomy of the evolving parent-infant relationship

Infant survival and the development of secure and cooperative relationships are central to the future of the species. In humans, this relies heavily on the evolving early parent–infant social and affective relationship. While much is known about the behavioural and psychological components of this relationship, relatively little is known about the underlying functional neuroanatomy. Affective and social neuroscience has helped to describe the main adult brain networks involved, but has so far engaged very little with developmental findings. In this review, we seek to highlight future avenues for research by providing a coherent framework for describing the parent–infant relationship over the first 18 months. We provide an outline of the evolving nature of the relationship, starting with basic orienting and recognition processes, and culminating in the infant's attainment of higher socio-emotional and cognitive capacities. Key social and affective interactions, such as communication, cooperative play and the establishment of specific attachments propel the development of the parent–infant relationship. We summarise our current knowledge of the developing infant brain in terms of structure and function, and how these relate to the emergent abilities necessary for the formation of a secure and cooperative relationship with parents or other caregivers. Important roles have been found for brain regions including the orbitofrontal, cingulate, and insular cortices in parent–infant interactions, but it has become clear that much more information is needed about the developmental time course and connectivity of these regions.

Da busca pela natureza aos ambientes artificiais : reflexões sobre a escalada esportiva

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Estudo exploratório sobre as representações dos pais relativamente à educação em creche

Tendo em conta o aumento do número de estruturas de apoio à primeira infância, particularmente, a expansão da creche, a investigação tem-se debruçado sobre as questões da qualidade. A generalidade dos estudos centra-se na discriminação das dimensões de qualidade e, raramente, a representação dos pais sobre a creche (e sua qualidade) tem sido alvo de estudo. Partindo do pressuposto que a discussão sobre a qualidade da creche deve ser baseada na evidência empírica mas também é uma construção social baseada nos valores e representações dos seus atores, fomos ouvir os pais. Assim, quisemos conhecer: Como escolhiam a creche do seu filho(a)? Qual o seu conceito de qualidade? Que valor atribuem às experiências vividas pelos seus filhos ou filhas na creche? Que representação têm do papel do profissional de educação? Para o efeito, entrevistamos 20 pais sobre as suas Representações acerca da Creche num estudo exploratório e qualitativo. Os entrevistados foram na maioria dos casos mães (18 em 20) de crianças entre os 8 e os 32 meses (M = 21,65; 9 meninas, 11 meninos; 13 primogénitos). De modo geral, o estudo revelou que os pais valorizam a creche como espaço de promoção do desenvolvimento da criança; valorizam a dimensão afetiva do trabalho em creche; as educadoras como profissionais qualificados de educação e desejam uma relação estreita, aberta e respeitosa entre a creche e a família.

Peer interaction and learning opportunities in cohesive and less cohesive L2 classrooms

The present study investigates peer to peer oral interaction in two task based language teaching classrooms, one of which was a self-declared cohesive group, and the other a self- declared less cohesive group, both at B1 level. It studies how learners talk cohesion into being and considers how this talk leads to learning opportunities in these groups. The study was classroom-based and was carried out over the period of an academic year. Research was conducted in the classrooms and the tasks were part of regular class work. The research was framed within a sociocognitive perspective of second language learning and data came from a number of sources, namely questionnaires, interviews and audio recorded talk of dyads, triads and groups of four students completing a total of eight oral tasks. These audio recordings were transcribed and analysed qualitatively for interactions which encouraged a positive social dimension and behaviours which led to learning opportunities, using conversation analysis. In addition, recordings were analysed quantitatively for learning opportunities and quantity and quality of language produced. Results show that learners in both classes exhibited multiple behaviours in interaction which could promote a positive social dimension, although behaviours which could discourage positive affect amongst group members were also found. Analysis of interactions also revealed the many ways in which learners in both the cohesive and less cohesive class created learning opportunities. Further qualitative analysis of these interactions showed that a number of factors including how learners approach a task, the decisions they make at zones of interactional transition and the affective relationship between participants influence the amount of learning opportunities created, as well as the quality and quantity of language produced. The main conclusion of the study is that it is not the cohesive nature of the group as a whole but the nature of the relationship between the individual members of the small group completing the task which influences the effectiveness of oral interaction for learning.This study contributes to our understanding of the way in which learners individualise the learning space and highlights the situated nature of language learning. It shows how individuals interact with each other and the task, and how talk in interaction changes moment-by-moment as learners react to the ‘here and now’ of the classroom environment.

Variations in fathers' discourse on fatherhood and in family alliances during infancy

The aim of this pilot study is to analyse the discourse of fathers of toddlers concerning fatherhood and the link between some particularities in the discourse and family alliance. The sample consists of 13 Swiss first time fathers (5 fathers of girls and 8 of boys). In order to evaluate the paternal discourse, the fathers were given a semi-structured interview, which was later analysed using the research package Alceste. The family alliance, i.e., the degree of coordination among the partners when executing a task together, was assessed through the Lausanne Trilogue Play (Fivaz-Depeursinge & Corboz-Warnery, 1999). The main results indicated an interesting link between classes of paternal discourse grouped around the following themes "affective relationship", "daily routine" and "educational goals", and the family alliance (defined in two major categories; functional and problematic alliances). Finally, clinical perspectives on links between paternal representations and family functioning at an interactive level are discussed

La cinéphanie et sa réappropriation : l’«affect originel» et sa réactualisation par le fan, un spectateur néoreligieux

Thèse écrite grâce au financement du Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC)

Acerca da família nuclear

Este trabalho é motivado por uma questão básica, presente, atual: A família nuclear estaria sofrendo uma transformação em sua organização. Especificamente a dissolubilidade dos laços matrimoniais estaria contribuindo para uma diferente ordenação das relações de parentesco. O modelo familiar proposto, aqui no Brasil, pela Igreja e pela higiene, como procuramos demonstrar no texto, está, ao menos no que diz respeito à classe média da população, sendo descaracterizado por um tipo de relacionamento afetivo diverso do casamento tradicional "até que a morte os separe". Esta pergunta se amplia numa questão maior: ou a organização familiar transforma-se através da história, através das diferentes formações sociais, ou a família nuclear, objeto da nossa pesquisa, é um sempre-existente; ou seja, desde que o homem se aculturou a forma de organização familiar se restringiu, com variações que não passariam de meras exceções, meros desvios da estrutura primordial (a família restrita), como querem alguns autores? A nossa resposta a esta questão é claramente a favor do ponto de vista que afirma a transformação da organização familiar através dos tempos, portanto através da história, e o que é mais importante, através de diferentes formações sociais. Assim sendo, fomos levados, não só pela nossa prática, mas principalmente pela íntima ligação que a pesquisa histórica revela entre o surgimento da psicanálise e a sedimentação do modelo da família restrita, pelo novo poder de "gerir a vida", ou seja, um poder que, ao invés de tirar a vida daqueles que não o servem a contento, se interessa em extrair da vida tudo que de melhor ela pode dar, um poder a quem interessa uma qualidade cada vez maior de corpos, a fim de explorar a maior quantidade possível de produção. A família por si só é um problema. Trata-se de uma instituição que obriga a todas as ciências humanas, inclusive a medicina, a se depararem com ela em suas respectivas práticas, seja esta prática empírica ou teórica. Daí, por tratar-se de um trabalho teórico, tornou-se necessário percorrer vários saberes, os mais notáveis no nosso entender, para poder atingir os nossos objetivos.

Práticas discursivas e relações afetivas na contemporaneidade: o caso dos verbos ficar e namorar no contexto do vestibular da UFRN

This work is inserted to Applied Linguistic studies, concerned to the understanding that language is a social practice, bringing a qualitative research, discussing essential aspects that involve the subject and his/her discursive practice: signification and valuation. Due to this, we have elected as subject study, the sense and values attributed to the verbs make out and date searched on the articles written in the Vestibular 2005 process promoted by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), that had the following instruction: In a relationship, is it better make out , just date , or, both, make out and date ? This research is based on the Circle of Bakhtin s dialogic theory, as well as in the notions of instability in the affective relationships nowadays and in the individualization and multiplicity of contemporaneous subjectivity. Those papers are important to analyze the meaning and values that the verbs make out and date present, nowadays, as expressions of an affective relationship and how this situation can interfere in the positions of subjectivity in a formal instance as a vestibular. Those textual productions reflect those relationships, confronting temporary ones, whose discuss is marked, in general, by social voices that evaluate to make out negatively and to date positively

Não há você sem mim: histórias de mulheres sobreviventes de uma tentativa de homicídio

The murder-suicide (H / S) has been defined as a shocking crime in which a person takes the life of another and then kills himself within 24 hours. Set up as a gender violence, because men are in majority, the killers and the women victims. This study aims to understand the meanings of the experience of a H / S, from women who have survived this act. This study sets up as a hermeneutic phenomenological research, based on Heidegger`s ontology. We interviewed three survivors of H / S, whose narratives allowed to approach the senses present in their lives. The interviews were transcribed and interpreted in accordance with the hermeneutic circle, as proposed by Martin Heidegger. From the interviews of research participants perceive that these women have built their senses in stocks, represented the family foundation and the presence of a husband and children. This project that moved their lives toward the construction of modes-of-being. We noticed the presence of historicity constructing meanings for the existence of these women. We found reports of an experience of loving relationships characterized by strong jealousy, with the presence of fantasies of betrayal, and marked by a careful affective relationship that put them in the position of object possession of his companions. Reflect that such caring restricted their existence being-for-husband. So the senses that moved their stocks, which aimed his ways existential, was the creation of a family, a reference to their lives, to live a love, and care for the children. Therefore, beyond the already known aspects in studies on violence against women, which made these women continue to choose this relationship was the sense that they had for their existence. It is hoped that this study will contribute to the construction of a new look on violence against women, taking as a basis the Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology

Um lugar para chamar de "meu" :estudo sobre relação afetiva com o lugar de moradores da praia de Pipa-RN

The chores and the daily physical and social demands make us feel more and more the need to be in a familiar and restoring environment, with which we frequently establish emotional bonds. The interaction with places for resting and leisure, exemplified in the Environmental Psychology literature as recreational and home environments, allow us to exercise our potentials and to strengthen our (personal and collective) identity. Bearing this in mind, this dissertation has as aim to study the relation of affection between the place and the inhabitants of the community of Pipa-RN, which has turned from fishermen s village into tourist destination, bringing with it many changes to the local population. To accomplish that, we made use of behavioral observations, interviews, and graphic and photographic documentation with 30 subjects selected through a network of indications, attending to the criterion loving Pipa . After analysis and systematization of the answers, we identified three super-categories: 1) Love, characterized by the strong representation that an environment has upon an individual without, necessarily, there being an affective link, allowing it to be nurtured from a distance and dissociated from the desire to be present; 2) Attachment, demonstrated by the difficulty in leaving the place, a bond that can be mediated by personal financial investments or expectation of future benefits; 3) Affiliation, which refers to the feeling of belonging to the place and its community, sharing its history, culture, habits, etc., independent from the place of birth. These super-categories are not exclusive, on the contrary, they can form combinations which we denominate as situations, that could vary from 01 (individual involved with none of the three) to 07 (individual involved with the three); there wasn t the combination between Attachment and Affiliation. These results showed that within the framework of relations of affection with the place, there are countless possibilities of interaction individual-environment, determined by the physicalenvironmental characteristics and by the assessment that each individual makes of it. With this small contribution to the theme, we hope to enlighten the perspectives for future research, especially involving the relation of affection for places and the adoption of proenvironmental conducts, as a question of preservation of the ecosystems and of the quality of life of the inhabitants

Concepções maternas e paternas sobre desenvolvimento infantil e relações afetivas

Pós-graduação em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento e Aprendizagem - FC

O retrato da mulher hoje: realidade e desejos

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

No colo da ama de leite: a prática cultural da amamentação e dos cuidados das crianças na Província do Grão-Pará no século XIX

O presente estudo trata da prática cultural da amamentação e dos cuidados com as crianças pelas amas de leite na Província do Grão-Pará no século XIX. As amas de leite tiveram um papel importante no âmbito simbólico, social e cultural da vida privada da sociedade patriarcal-escravocrata no Brasil no século XIX. Na Província do Grão-Pará era recorrente a contratação de amas de leite para amamentar e cuidar das crianças. A questão central que norteou o estudo foi: Qual a presença das amas de leite na história da infância paraense, sobretudo as significações culturais, sociais e afetivas na vida da criança na Província do Grão-Pará no século XIX? Os objetivos da pesquisa foram: a) identificar a origem das amas de leite e sua importância para a história da infância; b) descrever a história da amamentação e os discursos dos médicos higienistas sobre os cuidados com a criança, a mãe e as amas de leite; c) destacar o significado das amas de leite na amamentação, nos cuidados e na educação das crianças no século XIX na Província do Grão-Pará; d) identificar a solicitação dos serviços das amas de leite para atender as crianças na Província do Grão-Pará. Metodologicamente utilizamos a pesquisa histórica e documental, composta por um corpus de 92 anúncios publicados no período de 1845 a 1888, nos jornais paraenses Treze de Maio, A Constituição, Diário de Belém, O Liberal do Pará, A Regeneração, Gazeta Official, Diário do Commercio e O Paraense. O corpus foi obtido na Biblioteca Artur Vianna (CENTUR) e na Hemeroteca da Biblioteca Nacional Digital, tendo sido organizado em 12 categorias de análise, com base na análise de conteúdo de Laurence Bardin. Os resultados demonstram a existência de um comércio indiscriminado de compra e venda de amas de leite na Província do Grão-Pará, inclusive valorizando as mais jovens, com bons costumes, boa higiene, sadias e que não tivessem cria. O perfil social das amas de leite da Província do Grão-Pará no período estudado era semelhante aos presentes nas demais Províncias do Brasil, sendo ela geralmente escrava e se fosse livre, era pobre e predominantemente negra. No final do século XIX, os médicos higienistas argumentavam que as amas de leite transmitiam doenças e eram “mercenárias”, recomendando a amamentação materna ou o uso de leite industrializado. No entanto, verificou-se que a influência da ama de leite para a criança foi além da relação afetiva, repercutindo em sua educação, linguagem, alimentação, enfim em diversos aspectos de sua cultura.

O que os homens têm a dizer sobre as mulheres? Os novos posicionamentos de jovens do gênero masculino frente às transformações femininas nas relações afetivas: uma leitura sob a ótica da Psicologia Analítica

Pós-graduação em Educação Sexual - FCLAR