Dynamic sensorymotor oscillation and cerebral development
Drawing from Freuds Project, the author proposes a model of cerebral development whose sensorymotor structure is defined by a frontaloccipital oscillatory dynamic with a twofold function: the oscillation explains the formation and maintenance of motherinfant attunement in cerebral growth, while, at the same time, also explaining the functioning of the projectiveintrojective dynamic at the basis of psychoanalytic theory. The oscillatory dynamic, according to this perspective, operates as a bridge between two seminal theoretical models of developmentsthe psychoanalytic and the infant research modelwhich, in turn, leads to the formulation of some neurological hypotheses on how oscillation regulates the elaboration of maternal interaction in the infants brain, and how the mother may act to modify it. The paper discusses how the oscillatory dynamic offers an innovative framework for the reconceptualization of the development of mentalization, the function of mirror neurons, and, most interestingly, of the development of language, explaining the non-verbal properties of ordinary linguistic communication and the function of oscillation in the regulation of information exchange processing.
frontaloccipital oscillatory dynamic projectiveintrojective dynamic infant research maternal interaction in the infants brain mentalization mirror neurons development of language