2025
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience
Tottenham N, Vannucci A. Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience. Current Directions In Psychological Science 2025 DOI: 10.1177/09637214251313714.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEarly caregiving experiencesAttachment schemasEmotion regulationMidline cortical regionsCaregiving experienceNeurodevelopmental frameworkDevelopmental neuroscienceEmotional well-beingFunctional connectivityNeural circuitryCortical regionsNeural predictionPredictive inferenceWell-beingMemoryEmpirical findingsNeurobiologyCognitionSchemaAttachmentEmotionsNeuroscienceCircuitry
2024
Probing the content of affective semantic memory following caregiving‐related early adversity
Vannucci A, Fields A, Bloom P, Camacho N, Choy T, Durazi A, Hadis S, Harmon C, Heleniak C, VanTieghem M, Dozier M, Milham M, Ghetti S, Tottenham N. Probing the content of affective semantic memory following caregiving‐related early adversity. Developmental Science 2024, 27: e13518. PMID: 38664866, PMCID: PMC11489028, DOI: 10.1111/desc.13518.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSemantic memoryAttachment securityParent-child interactionsCaregiving adversityEarly adversityAttachment experiencesCognitive neuroscience frameworkFalse memory taskEarly caregiving adversityInternal working modelsMemory taskAttachment schemasNeuroscience frameworkFalse recognitionPreregistered studyBowlby's notionChild reportsSchema representationPotential malleabilityAdverse exposuresSchema knowledgeCognitive scienceParental-reportMemoryAdversity
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