Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy: Coordinated Timingin Development

by Joseph Jaffe, Beatrice Beebe, Stanley Feldstein

Coordination between infant and adult is thought to be essential to infant development. However, the study is theoretically and methodologically grounded in a dyadic systems perspective and relational psychoanalysis. Our automated apparatus explores the micro-second timing of 4-month infant-adult vocal coordination to predict 12-month infant attachment and cognition. This work also further defines a fundamental dyadic timing matrix that guides the trajectory of infant development.

163 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 2001