Population
Infants followed over the first 13 months of life
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
13 months
Authors
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Infant cardiac measures may track attachment processes; hypothesis-generating for developmental research, should not yet change practice.
Infant cardiac activity, specifically heart rate and heart-rate variability, changes systematically over the first 13 months of life and correlates with infant-mother attachment.
Izard et al. (1991) studied this question.
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