Prenatal maternal cortisol measures predict learning and short-term memory performance in 3- but not 5-month-old infants
| Autor: | Cynthia A. Unger, Gin Morgan, LeeAnna A. Covey, Laura A. Thompson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Short-term memory performance Hydrocortisone Mothers Anxiety Article Developmental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Developmental Neuroscience Pregnancy Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Learning 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Stress measures Saliva Fetus 05 social sciences Age Factors Infant Cognition medicine.disease Memory Short-Term Prenatal stress Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects Female medicine.symptom Psychology Psychosocial Stress Psychological 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Developmental Psychobiology. 59:723-737 |
| ISSN: | 0012-1630 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/dev.21530 |
| Popis: | Little is known about relations between maternal prenatal stress and specific cognitive processes—learning and memory—in infants. A modified crib-mobile task was employed in a longitudinal design to test relations between maternal prenatal cortisol, prenatal subjective stress and anxiety, psychosocial variables, and learning and memory in 3- and 5-month-old infants. Results revealed that maternal prenatal cortisol was affected by particular psychosocial variables (e.g., maternal age, whether or not the infant’s grandmother provided childcare, financial status), but was unrelated to measures of maternal depression, anxiety, and stress. Although maternal prenatal cortisol was not predictive of learning or memory performance in 5-month-old-infants, higher levels of basal maternal cortisol and reduced prenatal cortisol response was predictive of some learning and short-term memory measures in 3-month-old infants. These results suggest an influence of maternal neuroendocrine functioning on fetal neurological development, and the importance of separate examination of subjective and biological measures of stress. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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