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Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

Volume 6, 2024

Contingency and Synchrony: Interactional Pathways Toward Attentional Control and Intentional Communication

  • S.V. Wass1, E.A.M. Phillips2, I. Marriott Haresign1, M. Perapoch Amadó1 and L. Goupil3
  • 1School of Psychology, University of East London, London, United Kingdom; email: [email protected] 2Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom 3Université Grenôble Alpes, CNRS, Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, Grenôble, France
  • Vol. 6:63-85 (Volume publication date December 2024)
  • First published as a Review in Advance on September 19, 2024
  • Copyright © 2024 by the author(s).
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information.

Abstract

In this article we examine how contingency and synchrony during infant–caregiver interactions help children learn to pay attention to objects and how this, in turn, affects their ability to direct caregivers’ attention and to track communicative intentions in others. First, we present evidence that, early in life, child–caregiver interactions are asymmetric. Caregivers dynamically and contingently adapt to their child more than the other way around, providing higher-order semantic and contextual cues during attention episodes, which facilitate the development of specialized and integrated attentional brain networks in the infant brain. Then, we describe how social contingency also facilitates the child's development of predictive models and, through that, goal-directed behavior. Finally, we discuss how contingency and synchrony of brain and behavior can drive children's ability to direct their caregivers’ attention voluntarily and how this, in turn, paves the way for intentional communication.

Keyword(s): attention control, communication, contingency, coregulation, intentional, self-regulation, synchrony
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