Colwyn Trevarthen

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Colwyn Trevarthen

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According to Wikipedia, Colwyn Trevarthen is Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology and Psychobiology at the University of Edinburgh. Background After training as a biologist in New Zealand at Auckland University College and Otago University, Trevarthen researched infancy at Harvard in 1967.

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Communication and cooperation in early infancy: a description of primary intersubjectivity (1979) (1525)
Infant intersubjectivity: research, theory, and clinical applications. (2001) (1405)
Cultural learning. Author's reply (1993) (745)
Review: Cognition and Reality: Principles and Implications of Cognitive Psychology (1977) (634)
Reception of bilateral chimeric figures following hemispheric deconnexion. (1972) (557)
Musicality and the intrinsic motive pulse: evidence from human psychobiology and infant communication (1999) (492)
The concept and foundations of infant intersubjectivity. (1998) (488)
Communicative Musicality: Exploring the basis of human companionship (2010) (467)
Intrinsic motives for companionship in understanding: Their origin, development, and significance for infant mental health (2001) (335)
The self born in intersubjectivity: The psychology of an infant communicating. (1993) (318)
Metacontrol of hemispheric function in human split-brain patients. (1976) (306)
The infant's role in mother–infant communications (1986) (253)
The Dance of Wellbeing: Defining the Musical Therapeutic Effect (2000) (192)
What is it like to be a person who knows nothing? Defining the active intersubjective mind of a newborn human being (2011) (187)
Disorganized rhythm and synchrony: Early signs of autism and Rett syndrome (2005) (179)
Autism as a developmental disorder in intentional movement and affective engagement (2013) (169)
Perceptual unity of the ambient visual field in human commissurotomy patients. (1973) (160)
Self/other organization in human psychological development (1997) (146)
Perceptual, semantic and phonetic aspects of elementary language processes in split-brain patients. (1977) (138)
What infants' imitations communicate: With mothers, with fathers and with peers. (1999) (138)
Brain development, infant communication, and empathy disorders: Intrinsic factors in child mental health (1994) (136)
First things first: infants make good use of the sympathetic rhythm of imitation, without reason or language (2005) (123)
Sharing a task in infancy (1979) (113)
6 – PARALLEL PROCESSING OF VISUAL INFORMATION (1989) (108)
Lateral Asymmetries in Infancy: Implications for the Development of the Hemispheres (1996) (103)
Facial expressions of emotion in mother-infant interaction. (1985) (94)
Double Visual Learning in Split-Brain Monkeys (1962) (93)
Communication in infancy: Mutual regulation of affect and attention (1997) (93)
Prologue: From infant intersubjectivity and participant movements to simulation and conversation in cultural common sense (2007) (83)
The Intersubjective Psychobiology of Human Meaning: Learning of Culture Depends on Interest for Co-Operative Practical Work–and Affection for the Joyful Art of Good Company (2009) (81)
Are deconnected cerebral hemispheres independent channels? A preliminary study of the effect of unilateral loading on bilateral finger tapping. (1972) (81)
The ontogenesis of narrative: from moving to meaning (2015) (79)
Collaborative regulations of vitality in early childhood : stress in intimate relationships and postnatal psychopathology (2006) (79)
The musical art of infant conversation: Narrating in the time of sympathetic experience, without rational interpretation, before words (2008) (79)
Development of Intersubjective Motor Control in Infants (1986) (75)
Musical narrative and motives for culture in mother-infant vocal interaction (2008) (71)
A musical assessment of psychiatric states in adults. (1989) (69)
Consciousness in infants (2007) (67)
Locating and identifying: Two modes of visual processing (1967) (67)
Sharing makes sense: intersubjectivity and the making of an infant’s meaning (1987) (67)
Improvisational Music Therapy and the Rehabilitation of Persons Suffering from Chronic Schizophrenia (1994) (66)
What young children give to their learning, making education work to sustain a community and its culture (2011) (65)
The Child's Need to Learn a Culture1 (2007) (65)
Children with Autism: Diagnosis and Interventions to Meet Their Needs (1996) (64)
Signs of Motivation for Speech in Infants, and the Nature of a Mother’s Support for Development of Language (1986) (61)
Experimental evidence for a brain-stem contribution to visual perception in man. (1970) (58)
4. "Stepping away from the mirror: pride and shame in adventures of companionship" reflections on the nature and emotional needs of infant intersubjectivity (2005) (57)
An Influence in Psychobiology. (Book Reviews: Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind. Essays in Honor of Roger W. Sperry.) (1990) (56)
What we learn about babies from engaging their emotions (2004) (54)
Vision in fish: the origins of the visual frame for action in vertebrates (1969) (54)
Prelinguistic pitch patterns expressing 'communication' and 'apprehension'. (2006) (53)
Action and emotion in development of cultural intelligence: why infants have feelings like ours (2004) (52)
The function of emotions in early infant communication and development (2017) (52)
Embodied Human Intersubjectivity: Imaginative Agency, To Share Meaning (2012) (51)
Psychobiology of Musical Gesture: Innate Rhythm, Harmony and Melody in Movements of Narration (2011) (46)
Signs Before Speech (1990) (46)
Autism, sympathy of motives and music therapy (2002) (43)
Autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting communication and learning in early childhood: prenatal origins, post-natal course and effective educational support. (2000) (41)
Clinical Studies in Infant Mental Health: The First Year of Life. Edited by Selma Fraiberg. London: Tavistock Publications. 1980. Pp 279. £7.75. (1981) (40)
Voluntary emotional facial expressions in patients with focal cerebral lesions (1990) (39)
Chapter IIIa How Control of Movement Develops (1984) (37)
Color-matching, color-naming and color-memory in split-brain patients (1981) (37)
The developmental psychology and neuropsychology of emotion in language (2015) (36)
Evoking communication in Rett syndrome: comparisons with conversations and games in mother-infant interaction. (1997) (35)
The Human Nature of Music (2018) (34)
Biology of Shared Experience and Language Development: Regulations for the Intersubjective Life of Narratives (2013) (34)
To sing and dance together: From infants to jazz (2007) (34)
Coordination of Emotions in Mother–Infant Dialogues (2017) (33)
Learning about Ourselves, from Children：Why A Growing Human Brain Needs Interesting Companions? (2004) (32)
Voices of shared emotion and meaning: Young infants and their mothers in Scotland and Japan. (2009) (32)
Interpersonal Abilities of Infants as Generators for Transmission of Language and Culture (1983) (31)
Biodynamic Structures, Cognitive Correlates of Motive Sets and the Development of Motives in Infants (1984) (29)
The human nature of culture and education. (2014) (28)
Development of Early Social Interactions and the Affective Regulation of Brain Growth (1989) (28)
Intersubjectivity in the Imagination and Feelings of the Infant: Implications for Education in the Early Years (2017) (28)
Theories of the development of human communication (2013) (28)
VOICE, VITALITY AND MEANING: ON THE SHAPING OF THE INFANT'S UTTERANCES IN WILLING ENGAGEMENT WITH CULTURE. COMMENT ON BERTAU'S "ON THE NOTION OF VOICE" (2007) (26)
Human biochronology: on the source and functions of ‘musicality’ (2009) (26)
Neuroembryology and the Development of Perceptual Mechanisms (1986) (26)
Specialized Lesions: The Split-Brain Technique (1972) (26)
Born for Art, and the Joyful Companionship of Fiction (2012) (25)
Conversations with a two-month-old 1 (2018) (24)
On the brainstem origin of autism: disruption to movements of the primary self (2017) (24)
BRAIN SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT (1986) (23)
Biology of Shared Meaning and Language Development: Regulating the Life of Narratives (2013) (23)
Musicality and Musical Culture: Sharing Narratives of Sound from Early Childhood (2012) (22)
Neurological Development and the Growth of Psychological Functions (1980) (22)
General Schemes of Classification in Relation to Marine Coastal Zonation (1953) (22)
Communicative musicality: The human impulse to create and share music (2011) (22)
Reactions of patients with focal cerebral lesions to success or failure (1988) (22)
Neuroembryology and the Development of Perception (1979) (22)
Making sense of infants making sense (2002) (21)
From the Intrinsic Motive Pulse of Infant Actions to the Life Time of Cultural Meanings (2016) (21)
The neural mechanisms of reciprocal communication (2010) (20)
The infant's creative vitality, in projects of self-discovery and shared meaning : how they anticipate school, and make it fruitful (2014) (20)
An experimental study of transcallosal connections between the proreus gyri of the cat. (1969) (18)
Mother-infant communication can be enhanced after conception by in-vitro fertilization (2001) (17)
Intuitive meaning: Supporting impulses for interpersonal life in the sociosphere of human knowledge, practice and language (2012) (17)
3 – Development of the Cerebral Mechanisms for Language (1983) (16)
Predispositions to cultural learning in young infants (1993) (16)
Epilogue: Natural sources of meaning in human sympathetic vitality (2012) (14)
Awareness of Infants: What Do They, and We, Seek? (2015) (14)
Chapter II – Functional Organization of the Human Brain (1980) (14)
Subtle is the Lord: The relationship between consciousness, the unconscious, and the executive control network (ECN) of the brain (2000) (14)
Infant semiosis: The psycho-biology of action and shared experience from birth (2015) (14)
Child in society, and society in children: the nature of basic trust (1989) (13)
MEASURING THE HUMAN VOICE : ANALYSING PITCH , TIMING , LOUDNESS (1998) (13)
Meeting the needs of children from birth to three: research evidence and implications for out-of-home provision (2003) (13)
Recording horizontal rotations of head and eyes in spontaneous shifts, of gaze (1969) (12)
To sing and dance together (2007) (12)
The tasks of consciousness: how could the brain do them? (1979) (11)
Signs of autism in infancy: sensitivity for rhythms of expression in communication (2018) (11)
The central role of parents: how they can give power to a motor impaired child's acting, experiencing and sharing (1995) (10)
Finding a place with meaning in a busy human world: how does the story begin, and who helps? (2012) (10)
Sharing joyful friendship and imagination for meaning with infants, and their application in early intervention (2018) (9)
Roots of Musicality: Music Therapy and Personal Development (2005) (9)
Musical communication : the body movements of performance (2009) (9)
Subcortical Influences on Cortical Processing in ‘Split’ Brains (1987) (8)
Development of consciousness (2017) (7)
Explaining Emotions in Attachment (2001) (7)
Grace in moving and joy in sharing : The intrinsic Beauty of communicative musicality from birth (2018) (6)
Studies on visual learning in split-brain monkeys (1962) (6)
Autism: A Holistic Approach (2001) (6)
Being misunderstood in autism: The role of motor disruption in expressive communication, implications for satisfying social relations (2018) (6)
Disruption to embodiment in autism, and its repair (2020) (5)
Music and Infant Interaction (1997) (5)
Foreword. Shared minds and the science of fiction: Why theories will differ (2008) (5)
The Psychobiology of the Human Spirit (2019) (4)
Maternal Voice and Communicative Musicality: Sharing the Meaning of Life from Before Birth (2017) (4)
An appreciation of the interpersonal Psychology of Henri Wallon (1993) (4)
Disruption to the Core Self in Autism, and Its Care (2022) (4)
Communicative Musicality or Stories of Truth and Beauty in the Sound of Moving (2015) (4)
Sander’s Life Work, on Mother-Infant Vitality and the Emerging Person (2019) (4)
Roger W. Sperry (1913–1994) (1994) (4)
Play with infants (2017) (4)
Sensitive guidance to encourage shared ‘zest for learning’ (2014) (3)
Can a Robot Hear Music? Can a Robot Dance? Can a Robot Tell What it Knows or Intendes to Do? Can it Feel Pride or Shame in Company? -- Questions of the Nature of Human Vitality (2002) (3)
Neuroscience and intrinsic psychodynamics: current knowledge and potential for therapy (2018) (3)
Emerging cognitive abilities in early infancy. (2003) (3)
Emotions of human infants and mothers and development of the brain (1992) (3)
Language Mechanisms in the Brain, Development (1989) (3)
The Musical Self (2017) (3)
Sharing makes sense (1987) (2)
Psychological Development: Ethological and Evolutionary Approaches (2001) (2)
The early embodied development of ASD, and its care (2019) (2)
A child's brain: The impact of advanced research on cognitive and social behaviors (1986) (2)
Fetal Development: A Psychobiological Perspective. Edited by Jean-Pierre Lecanuet, William P. Fifer, Norman A. Krasnegor and William P. Smotherman. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1995. (1997) (2)
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland. (2022) (2)
The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds. By John Bowlby. London: Tavistock. 1979. Pp 184. £6.50, £2.95 (paperback). (1980) (2)
Basic Patterns of Psychogenetic Change in Infancy (2017) (2)
What young children give to our learning (2018) (2)
In praise of a doctor who welcomes the newborn infant person. (2013) (2)
Leftness and rightness. (1977) (2)
Commentary on Tiffany Field’s paper (2002) (2)
18. Group report: Adaptive and maladaptive outcomes (2005) (1)
Discovering Our Music With Infants (2020) (1)
Investigating the rhythms and vocal expressions of infant musicality, in Crete, Japan and Scotland (2006) (1)
Stephen briggs Growth and risk in infancy: London: Jessica Kingsley, 1997, pp292 When the beholder is made beholden, the infant's psyche may be strong (1998) (1)
Adaptive and Maladaptive Outcomes - group report (2005) (1)
Life for Learning (2016) (1)
Hemispheric modes of consciousness in the human brain (1981) (1)
Caring for the human spirit in pride and shame (2021) (1)
Remembering Daniel Stern (2013) (1)
Chapter 5 – BEHAVIORAL EMBRYOLOGY (1973) (1)
Epilogue: Emotion in language can overcome exclusion from meaning (2015) (1)
Infant Intentionality: Learning with Others (2020) (1)
Neurons and Interneural Connections of the Central Visual System.Ekaterina G. Shkol'nik-Yarros, Basil Haigh , Robert W. Doty (1972) (1)
Book Reviews: Book Reviews (2003) (1)
Midbrain perceptual functions in man. (1975) (1)
Embodied Musicality of Infant Intersubjectivity in Learning and Teaching (2019) (1)
Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (2021) (1)
Split Brains and Human Consciousness (2015) (1)
What young children know about living and learning with companions (2013) (1)
Dan Stern's Voyage of Discovery in the Interpersonal World of Human Movement, and the Gifts He Brought to Us (2013) (1)
Exploring the Neural Mechanisms of the Mind (1962) (0)
Cortical collaboration and consciousness (1978) (0)
The Place of Attachment in Human Behaviour. Edited by C. M. Parkes and J. Stevenson-Hinde. London: Tavistock. 1982. Pp 331. £14.00. (1984) (0)
EYE MOVEMENTS AND VISUAL PERCEPTION. By R. W. DITCHBEURN. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1973. Pp. xv+421. £9.50 (1974) (0)
The conundrum of conscious and unconscious relations: Part 2—The tagging of memory, the dynamic unconscious, and the executive control network (ECN) (2018) (0)
Human laterality M.C. Corballis. Perspectives in Neurolinguistics, Neuropsychology, and Psycholinguistics: a Series of Monographs and Treastises. Academic Press, New York, 1983, 255 pp., $29.50 (1985) (0)
The psychology of the experience of music (2018) (0)
Defining the child’s curriculum, and its role in the life of the community (2018) (0)
Conversation with Katie Melua (2018) (0)
Regulation of human cognition and its growth (1994) (0)
The early development of autism spectrum disorder and its care (2020) (0)
Infant Intentions: The role of agency in learning with affectionate companions (2020) (0)
Obituary: Dr Penelope Alicia Hubley(née Willey) (1997) (0)
Musical analysis of Liz’s experience (2018) (0)
As far as it goes. (1985) (0)
An incomplete introduction. (1984) (0)
European Journal of Developmental Psychology, Volume 11, 2014, List of Reviewers (2014) (0)
My psychobiological life story (2019) (0)
The Visual System: Neurophysiology, Biophysics, and Their Clinical Applications. Proceedings of the Ninth ISCERG Symposium, Brighton, England, July, 1971.G. B. Arden (1973) (0)
Conversation with Baroness Julia Neuberger (2018) (0)
Does developmental cognitive neuroscience promise too much? (2001) (0)
[INTERHEMISPHERIC VISUAL PROCESSES LOCALIZED IN THE BRAIN STEM. THEIR DEMONSTRATION ON MONKEYS WITH DIVIDED BRAINS]. (1963) (0)
Aspects of Neurogenesis.Gilbert Gottlieb (1975) (0)
[Analysis of the inciting and executing components of a visual checking in monkeys with divided brain]. (1968) (0)
The ‘habitus’ of the experience of music and music therapy (2018) (0)
Human developmental neuropsychology O. Spreen, D. Tupper, A. Risser, H. Tuokko, and D. Edgell. Oxford University Press, New York, 1984, 474 pp., $45.00/27.95 (1985) (0)
A two-part invention (2018) (0)
Relating Growth of the Brain to the Growth of Intelligence. (1971) (0)
The psychobiology of human gesture: form, rhythm, and melody in infants’ movements of narration (2011) (0)
The communication of emotion By R. Buck. The Guilford Press, New York, 1984. ISBN 0-89862-110-0 (1988) (0)
Embodied Intersubjectivity and the Vitality of Cultural Meaning: Narratives of Communicative Musicality in Learning and Teaching (2019) (0)
Conversation with Benjamin Zephaniah (2018) (0)
The experience of the origins of self-in-relationship in neuroscience and music (2018) (0)
Introduction (1999) (0)
Pediatric Psychology: An Introduction for Pediatricians and Psychologists. John V. Lavigne and William J. Burns New York: Grune & Stratton. 1981. Pp 375. £22.80. (1984) (0)
A gathering of musical experiences (2018) (0)
Intimate contact from birth (2018) (0)
The conundrum of conscious and unconscious relations: Part 1—Ito's evolutionary model of brain and the role of the cerebellum 47 (2018) (0)
The spirit of the child inspires learning in the community: How can we balance this promise with the politics and practice of education? (2018) (0)
Conversation with Mercedes Pavlicevic (2018) (0)
Genetic aspects of speech and language disorders Edited by C.L. Ludlow and J.A. Cooper. Academic Press, New York, 1983, 221 pp., $29.00 (1985) (0)
The philosophy and sociology of the experience of music (2018) (0)
Consciousness generates agent action (2022) (0)
Roots of language before speech (1989) (0)
Review: The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, Cognitive Processes in Spelling, Left Brain, Right Brain, Consciousness: Brain, States of Awareness and Mysticism, Information Processing in the Nervous System (1982) (0)
Reflection on the two-part invention (2018) (0)
Discussion: perception and memory. (1979) (0)
Behavioral Embryology. Studies on the Development of Behavior and the Nervous System. Volume 1.Gilbert Gottlieb (1974) (0)
Retrieving Relatedness in Psychotherapy. (2002) (0)
Psychobiology. Edited by D. M. Warburton and A. Summerfield. London: Churchill Livingstone for the British Council. 1981. Pp 206. £9.50. (1983) (0)
Development of human consciousness (2017) (0)
The non-verbal narrative in adult-infant engagements (2012) (0)
Sleep and dreaming, Part 2: The importance of the SEEKING system for dream-related learning and the complex contributions to dreaming of memory mechanisms, transcription factors, sleep activation events, reentrant architecture, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), periaqueductal gray (PAG), and the (2018) (0)

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