Differential attentional responding in caesarean versus vaginally delivered infants
Differential attentional responding in caesarean versus vaginally delivered infants
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DOI：
10.3758/s13414-015-0969-3
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发表时间：
2015-11-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Wong-Kee-You, Audrey M. B.
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作者：
Adler, Scott A.;Wong-Kee-You, Audrey M. B.
人们对出生经历在大脑和认知发育中的作用知之甚少。最近的研究表明，出生经历影响了躯体感觉皮层的发育，这是一个涉及对感觉信息的空间注意的区域。在这项研究中，我们探讨了空间注意力的差异是否会发生在婴儿谁有不同的出生经验，发生在剖腹产与阴道分娩。三个月大的婴儿进行空间线索任务或视觉期望任务。我们发现，剖腹产婴儿的刺激驱动的反射性注意力相对于阴道分娩的婴儿减慢，而他们的认知驱动的自愿注意力不受影响。因此，出生经历的类型至少会影响婴儿的一种注意力，可能还会影响任何依赖于空间注意力的认知过程。这项研究还表明，出生经历影响大脑功能的初始状态，因此，在我们理解大脑发育时应该考虑到这一点。
Little is known about the role that the birth experience plays in brain and cognitive development. Recent research has suggested that birth experience influences the development of the somatosensory cortex, an area involved in spatial attention to sensory information. In this study, we explored whether differences in spatial attention would occur in infants who had different birth experiences, as occurs for caesarean versus vaginal delivery. Three-month-old infants performed either a spatial cueing task or a visual expectation task. We showed that caesarean-delivered infants' stimulus-driven, reflexive attention was slowed relative to vaginally delivered infants', whereas their cognitively driven, voluntary attention was unaffected. Thus, types of birth experience influence at least one form of infants' attention, and possibly any cognitive process that relies on spatial attention. This study also suggests that birth experience influences the initial state of brain functioning and, consequently, should be considered in our understanding of brain development.