ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science2025
Attachment as Prediction: Insights from Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience.
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- Movement-Anchored Emotional Memory: An Embodied Neuropsychological Framework.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- The child's internal working model of the parent as a mechanism linking parental mind-mindedness with the child's processing of relational events: A longitudinal study from infancy to preschool age.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- The inner life of autism: a call to action.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- MERTILChildren (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Mapping EEG Metrics to Human Affective and Cognitive Models: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review from a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Review
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Abstract
Early caregiving experiences have strong, persistent links to emotion regulation. In this perspective, we offer a view that the content represented in emotion regulation neurobiology in part reflects consolidated interpersonal-affective memories abstracted from early caregiving experiences. We suggest that these interpersonal-affective memories, referred to here as "attachment schemas", are represented by cortico-subcortical (re)activations. Neural circuitry involving functional connections between subcortical and midline cortical regions is well-positioned to generate predictive inferences from attachment schemas that have implications for emotion regulation. Although speculative, this perspective is motivated by the convergence of empirical findings from cognitive and developmental neuroscience. Situating affective neural predictions within a neurodevelopmental framework has great potential to uncover mechanisms of attachment, and ultimately build toward a more complete understanding of the links between early caregiving experiences and emotional wellbeing.
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