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Dann, Ruth – Education 3-13, 2011
The focus of this article is on children who are "looked after" or adopted. Specifically it explores some of the possible effects of early life traumas and insecure attachments on brain development and subsequent learning in primary school. The article draws on a range of research which helps to outline possible difficulties which these…
Descriptors: Infants, Brain, Adoption, Attachment Behavior
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Swingler, Margaret M.; Sweet, Monica A.; Carver, Leslie J. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 6-month-olds (N = 30) as they looked at pictures of their mother's face and a stranger's face. Negative component (Nc) and P400 component responses from the ERP portion of the study were correlated with behavioral responses of the infants during a separation from their mothers. We measured the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Brain