When I move, you move: Associations between automatic and person-coded measures of infant-mother synchrony during free-play using virtual in-home data collection

Jacqueline Hammack; Mini Sharma; Lindsey Riera-Gomez; Hila Z. Gvirts; Teresa Wilcox

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101869

When I move, you move: Associations between automatic and person-coded measures of infant-mother synchrony during free-play using virtual in-home data collection

Jacqueline Hammack, Mini Sharma, Lindsey Riera-Gomez, Hila Z. Gvirts, Teresa Wilcox

Department of Psychology

Ariel University

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Abstract

The relationship between movement synchrony and global scores of behavioral synchrony were investigated during a naturalistic free-play between 33 infants (ages 12- to 24-months) and their mothers using a video-conferencing platform. We assessed movement synchrony by applying an automatic tool, motion-energy analysis (MEA), to the obtained video data. Dyadic movement synchrony was associated with higher levels of maternal sensitivity, infant involvement, dyadic reciprocity, and a child-led interaction pattern. This demonstrates the feasibility of using MEA as an automatic tool for assessing movement synchrony in mother-infant dyads and its application for investigating naturalistic at-home free play sessions in a remote setting.

Original language	English
Article number	101869
Journal	Infant Behavior and Development
Volume	72
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101869
State	Published - Aug 2023

Keywords

CIB
Maternal sensitivity
Motion-energy analysis
Movement
Synchrony

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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When I move, you move: Associations between automatic and person-coded measures of infant-mother synchrony during free-play using virtual in-home data collection

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