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INFANCY
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 121-143Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0601_6
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH061778] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH061778-02, R01 MH061778-04, R01 MH061778-03, R01 MH061778-01A1, R01 MH061778] Funding Source: Medline
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This study examined the behavioral (arm, facial) and autonomic (heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA], and adrenocortical axis) reactivity of 56 4-month-old infants in response to contingency learning and extinction-induced frustration. During learning, infants displayed increases in operant arm response and positive emotional expressions. Changes in average RSA(V-NA) paralleled the observed changes in facial expressions in general and maintained an inverse relation with heart rate throughout most of the session. When frustrated by extinction, infants displayed increases in negative expressions, heart rate, and a brief increase in RSA(V-NA) followed by a significant decrease. No significant changes were observed for cortisol. These behavioral and facial responses are consistent with earlier work. The physiological changes, along with the facial expressions and instrumental responses, indicate that the autonomic nervous system functions as a coordinated affect system by 4 months of age.
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