Abstract
Maternal separation responses and attachment behavior are generally considered to be different aspects of a single psychophysiological system. However, recent evidence from animal studies argue against a unitary emotional system underlying attachment and separation responses. Hidden within the interactions between infant and mother, we and others have found a number of processes by which the mother serves as an external regulator of the infants' behavior, its autonomic physiology, and even the neurochemistry of its maturing brain. Many of the more slowly developing separation responses may thus be due to withdrawal of the previous regulation supplied by the mother rather than being part of the acute emotional response to disruption of attachment.
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