Royal Holloway, University of London.
School of Psychology, Bangor University.
Child Dev. 2020 Sep;91(5):1631-1649. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13361. Epub 2020 Apr 1.
Adults experience greater self-other bodily overlap in romantic than platonic relationships. One of the closest relationships is between mother and infant, yet little is known about their mutual bodily representations. This study measured infants' sensitivity to bodily overlap with their mother. Twenty-one 6- to 8-month-olds watched their mother's face or a stranger's face being stroked synchronously versus asynchronously with their own face. Infants preferred synchrony only when viewing their mother, not when viewing the stranger. Infants who strongly preferred synchrony with their mother also experienced less coordination with her in naturalistic interactions. Infants thus appear sensitive to bodily overlap with their mother, and this overlap reflects dyadic coordination, supporting theoretical accounts of intersubjectivity in the development of the bodily self.
成年人在浪漫关系中比在普通关系中更能感受到自我与他人身体的重叠。其中最亲密的关系之一是母婴关系，但人们对彼此的身体表象知之甚少。这项研究测量了婴儿对与母亲身体重叠的敏感度。21 名 6 至 8 个月大的婴儿观看了母亲或陌生人的脸被同步或不同步地抚摸，与他们自己的脸同步或不同步。当婴儿观看自己的母亲时，他们只喜欢同步，而不是观看陌生人时。强烈喜欢与母亲同步的婴儿在自然互动中与她的协调性也较低。因此，婴儿似乎对与母亲的身体重叠很敏感，这种重叠反映了二元协调，支持了身体自我发展中主体间性的理论解释。
