Mothering isn\u2019t unitary. It\u2019s not as though there\u2019s something called mothering. It\u2019s very complicated. It\u2019s got many aspects to it and what I\u2019ve been studying is how mothers emotional state impact how they interact with their babies. How mothers executive function and cognitive function and attentional function impacts how they interact with their babies. How mothers memories will influence how they interact now and later with first and second babies. So that I think they there are many general process systems like memory, like emotion, like attention and executive function and perception which are general process functions which have to be recruited in order for a mother to be attentive, to pay attention, to be attracted, to be in the mood to do it as it were so that you have to understand the role of all of these in order to understand how a mother is with her baby, or an animal mother is with its baby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In humans we know there are many, many aspects of behaviour that influence mothering, like if a mother\u2019s depressed, that\u2019s a really rough place to be. You\u2019re depressed and you\u2019re not responsive, you know, and in fact your baby very rapidly learns to deal with that, but it\u2019s a very difficult emotional thing. It\u2019s nothing about how much those moms love their babies, they love their babies, but if you\u2019re depressed then these other things take over, and so you\u2019re not able to respond in the same way. So I think you have to think about mothering as being quite complex and that\u2019s what I study. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mothering isn\u2019t unitary. It\u2019s not as though there\u2019s something called mothering. It\u2019s very complicated. It\u2019s got many aspects to it and what I\u2019ve been studying is how mothers emotional state impact how they interact with their babies. How mothers executive function and cognitive function and attentional function impacts how they interact with their babies. How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1609","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1609\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}