Sleep Consolidation, Sleep Problems, and Co-Sleeping: Rethinking Normal Infant Sleep as Species-Typical
| Autor: | Elaine S. Barry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sleep Wake Disorders
Co-sleeping Infant Context (language use) Infant sleep Normal infant Biological Evolution Psychology Social Sleep in non-human animals Mother-Child Relations Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Clinical Psychology 0302 clinical medicine Consolidation (business) Reference Values 030225 pediatrics Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Sleep Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Close contact 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 182:183-204 |
| ISSN: | 1940-0896 0022-1325 |
| Popis: | Infants evolved in the context of close contact (including co-sleeping). Evolutionary context is rarely considered in psychological infant sleep research, and Western sleep researchers make assumptions about what optimal "normal" infant sleep is and how to achieve early, deep, infant sleep consolidation and avoid infant sleep problems. However, an evolutionary and anthropological view of infant sleep as species-typical recognizes that human evolution likely prepared the infant brain for optimal development within its evolutionary context - co-sleeping. Thus, "normal" infant sleep, sleep consolidation, and sleep problems should all be understood within the framework of co-sleeping infants, not the historically new-phenomenon of solitary-sleeping infants. Much work needs to be done in order to understand "normal" infant sleep as species-typical and how adaptive infants are to environments that stray from their evolutionary norm. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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