A5015165383- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Social Representations and Identity
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Mind wandering and attention
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Infant Health and Development
Durham University
2016-2025
Barts Health NHS Trust
2023
University of Huddersfield
2022
University of Oxford
2022
Sapienza University of Rome
2021
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
2021
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2021
University of Liverpool
2016
Lancaster University
2016
Stanford University
2015
This study investigated predictors of attachment security in a play context using sample 71 mothers and their 6‐month‐old infants. We sought to rethink the concept maternal sensitivity by focusing on mothers’ ability accurately read mental states governing infant behaviour. Five categories were devised assess this ability, four which dependent responses behaviours, such as object‐directed activity. The fifth, Appropriate mind‐related comments , assessed individual differences proclivity...
This study investigated relations between social interaction during infancy and children's subsequent theory of mind (ToM). Infant–mother pairs ( N = 57) were observed in a free–play context at 6 months. Interactions coded for (a) mothers’ use mental state language that commented appropriately on the infants’ states, (b) did not reflect their minds. A third variable was (c) security attachment, which assessed using Strange Situation procedure 12 Performance battery ToM tasks 45 48 months...
The construct validity of maternal mind‐mindedness (MM) was investigated in the context its relations with children's later understanding mind. MM measures were obtained from infant–mother ( N =52) interactions at 6 months, and interviews 48 months. Children's mind assessed using theory (ToM) tasks 45 a stream consciousness (SoC) task 55 One early measures—mothers' appropriate mind‐related comments—was positive independent predictor of: (a) (b) ToM SoC performance to Path analyses suggested...
The development of symbolic and mentalising abilities was examined in 33 children whose security attachment had been assessed infancy. It found that securely attached children: (i) were better able to incorporate an experimenter’s play suggestions into their sequences at 31 months; (ii) performed on a version Wimmer Perner’s (1983) unexpected transfer task age 4. There also evidence superior among the secure group 5, despite no differences being general cognitive ability. We suggest these...
In a longitudinal study of attachment, children ( N = 147) aged 50 and 61 months heard their mother stranger make conflicting claims. 2 tasks, the available perceptual cues were equally consistent with either person’s claim but generally accepted mother’s claims over those stranger. 3rd task, favored stranger’s claims, her mother. However, children’s pattern responding varied by attachment status. The strategy relying on or stranger, depending cues, was especially evident among secure...
Relations among indices of maternal mind‐mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind‐related comments) children's: (a) internal state vocabulary perspectival symbolic play at 26 months ( N = 206), (b) theory mind (ToM) 51 n 161) were investigated. Appropriate comments positively associated with ToM, but unrelated to language play. Nonattuned negatively correlated play, ToM. Path analyses indicated that the best fit model assumed: indirect links between ToM via children's a direct link...
Auditory hallucinations--or voices--are a common feature of many psychiatric disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no history. Understanding the variation in subjective experiences hallucination is central to psychiatry, yet systematic empirical research on phenomenology auditory hallucinations remains scarce. We aimed record detailed diverse collection experiences, words people who hear voices themselves.We made 13 item questionnaire available online for 3 months. To elicit...
In a socially diverse sample of 206 infant–mother pairs, we investigated predictors infants’ attachment security at 15 months, with particular emphasis on mothers’ tendency to comment appropriately or in non‐attuned manner their 8‐month‐olds’ internal states (so‐called mind‐mindedness). Multinomial logistic regression analyses showed that higher scores for appropriate mind‐related comments and lower distinguished secure‐group mothers from counterparts the insecure‐avoidant,...
Abstract Hallucinations are common in psychiatric disorders, and also experienced by many individuals who not mentally ill. Here, 153 participants, we investigate brain structural markers that predict the occurrence of hallucinations comparing patients with schizophrenia have against not, matched on a number demographic clinical variables. Using both newly validated visual classification techniques automated, data-driven methods, were associated specific morphology differences paracingulate...