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Bio-behavioral synchrony promotes the development of conceptualized emotions
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As adults, we have structured conceptual representations of our emotions that help us to make sense of and regulate our ongoing affective experience. The ability to use emotion concepts is critical to make predictions about the world and choose appropriate action, such as ‘I am afraid, and going to run away’ or ‘I am hungry and going to eat’. Thus, emotion concepts have an important role in helping us maintain our ongoing physiological balance, or allostasis. We will suggest here that infants can learn emotion concepts for the purpose of allostasis regulation, and that conceptualization is key component in emotional development. Moreover, we will suggest that social dyads facilitate concept learning because of a robust evolutionary feature seen in newborns of social species: they cannot survive alone and depend on conspecifics for allostasis regulation. Such social dependency creates a robust driving force for social learning of emotion concepts, and makes the social dyad, which is designed to regulate the infant’s allostasis, an optimal medium for concept learning. In line with that, we will review evidence showing that the neural reference space for emotion overlaps with neural circuits that support allostasis (striatum, amygdala, hypothalamus) and conceptualization (medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex), and that their developmental trajectories are interrelated, and depend on synchronous social care.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Atzil, S., & Gendron, M.
- Affiliations
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Northeastern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Atzil, Shir
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-10
- Volume
- 17
- Pages
- 162-169
- ISSN
- 2352-250X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5617801
- OpenAlex
- W2734721194
- Semantic Scholar
- 43f8f158d0989f54e0b4b3162d2fd0076dd4c84e
- Cited by
- 120
- References
- 81
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 35 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 2.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R21HD076164)
- National Institute of Mental Health NRSA fellowship (5F32MH105052)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- emotion concepts, conceptualization of emotions, allostasis, infant emotional development, social learning, social synchrony, striatum, amygdala, hypothalamus, medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, emotion regulation, social care
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Concept Formation, Emotions, Humans, Models, Biological, Models, Psychological, Neural Pathways, Emotional Intelligence
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