@misc{vanderKantBiroLeveltetal.2018,
  author    = {van der Kant, Anne and Biro, Szilvia and Levelt, Claartje and Huijbregts, Stephan},
  title     = {Negative affect is related to reduced differential neural responses to social and non-social stimuli in 5-to-8-month-old infants},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {643},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-46813},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-468136},
  pages     = {23 -- 30},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Both social perception and temperament in young infants have been related to social functioning later in life. Previous functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) data (Lloyd-Fox et al., 2009) showed larger blood-oxygenation changes for social compared to non-social stimuli in the posterior temporal cortex of five-month-old infants. We sought to replicate and extend these findings by using fNIRS to study the neural basis of social perception in relation to infant temperament (Negative Affect) in 37 five-to-eight-month-old infants. Infants watched short videos displaying either hand and facial movements of female actors (social dynamic condition) or moving toys and machinery (non-social dynamic condition), while fNIRS data were collected over temporal brain regions. Negative Affect was measured using the Infant Behavior Questionnaire. Results showed significantly larger blood-oxygenation changes in the right posterior-temporal region in the social compared to the non-social condition. Furthermore, this differential activation was smaller in infants showing higher Negative Affect. Our results replicate those of Lloyd-Fox et al. and confirmed that five-to-eight-month-old infants show cortical specialization for social perception. Furthermore, the decreased cortical sensitivity to social stimuli in infants showing high Negative Affect may be an early biomarker for later difficulties in social interaction.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MazzaEccardZaccaronietal.2018,
  author    = {Mazza, Valeria and Eccard, Jana and Zaccaroni, Marco and Jacob, Jens and Dammhahn, Melanie},
  title     = {The fast and the flexible},
  series = {Animal behaviour},
  volume    = {137},
  journal   = {Animal behaviour},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {0003-3472},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.011},
  pages     = {119 -- 132},
  year      = {2018},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PitzerJennenSteinmetzEsseretal.2011,
  author    = {Pitzer, Martina and Jennen-Steinmetz, Christine and Esser, G{\"u}nter and Schmidt, Martin H. and Laucht, Manfred},
  title     = {Prediction of preadolescent depressive symptoms from child temperament, maternal distress, and gender results of a prospective, longitudinal study},
  series = {Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics},
  volume    = {32},
  journal   = {Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Lippincott Williams \& Wilkins},
  address   = {Philadelphia},
  issn      = {0196-206X},
  doi       = {10.1097/DBP.0b013e3181f4a474},
  pages     = {18 -- 26},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Objective: The delineation of developmental pathways to juvenile depressive symptoms is of major clinical interest because these are known to be predictive for adult mood disorders and for a range of other mental health problems. This study investigates the impact of child temperament and early maternal distress, both of which are known to influence children's emotional development, on preadolescent depression. Methods: In a prospective, longitudinal at-risk sample (163 boys, 178 girls), we assessed temperament at the age of 3 months and at 2 years, 4.5 years, and 8 years, respectively, and chronic maternal distress during infancy. Hierarchical linear regression analysis was used to investigate the prediction of depressive symptoms at the age of 11 years measured by the Child Depression Inventory. In addition, we controlled for psychosocial and obstetric perinatal risks and gender. Results: Psychosocial risks and self-control temperament made significant independent contributions to preadolescent depression, whereas fearful, difficult temperament and obstetric risks were unrelated to depressive outcome. Interestingly, a clear gender difference emerged with a significant prediction from maternal distress only in girls. Conclusions: Our data extend previous findings of a concurrent association between regulative temperament and juvenile depression to a predictive view. Furthermore, the results point toward gender-specific pathways to preadolescent depression and support earlier findings indicating that subclinical maternal distress may exert as detrimental effects on child development as clinical depression.},
  language  = {en}
}