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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Colwyn Trevarthen is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Their work also explores education and pharmacy as related subfields of study.

The main topics addressed in Trevarthen's research include child and animal learning development, early childhood education and development, autism spectrum disorder research, action observation and synchronization, infant health and development, social representations and identity, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

Trevarthen has contributed to multiple publication venues, including:

  • Psychology the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Children
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Recent papers by Trevarthen include:

  • The nature of motives for human consciousness (2020), published in Psychology the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society

Other recent related publications, not authored by Trevarthen but connected within the research network, include:

  • Editorial: Intersubjectivity: recent advances in theory, research, and practice (2023), Frontiers in Psychology
  • Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (2021), Children
  • A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland (2022), Infant Behavior and Development
  • Disruption to the Core Self in Autism, and Its Care (2022), Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Trevarthen include:

  • Jonathan Delafield-Butt
  • Penelope Dunbar
  • Undurti N. Das
  • Gilbert M. Foley
  • Stephanny Freeman

Colwyn Trevarthen was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Infant intersubjectivity: research, theory, and clinical applications.

    Colwyn Trevarthen;Kenneth J. Aitken

  • Communication and cooperation in early infancy : A description of primary intersubjectivity

    Colwyn Trevarthen

  • Reception of bilateral chimeric figures following hemispheric deconnexion.

    Jerre Levy;Colwyn Trevarthen;R. W. Sperry

  • Communicative Musicality: Exploring the basis of human companionship

    Stephen Malloch;Colwyn B. Trevarthen

  • Children with Autism: Diagnosis and Interventions to Meet Their Needs

    Colwyn B. Trevarthen

  • Musicality and the intrinsic motive pulse: evidence from human psychobiology and infant communication

    Colwyn Trevarthen

  • The concept and foundations of infant intersubjectivity.

    Colwyn Trevarthen

  • Intrinsic motives for companionship in understanding: Their origin, development, and significance for infant mental health

    Colwyn Trevarthen

  • Metacontrol of hemispheric function in human split-brain patients.

    Jerre Levy;Colwyn Trevarthen

  • Self/other organization in human psychological development.

    Kenneth J. Aitken;Colwyn Trevarthen

  • The infant's role in mother–infant communications.

    Lynne Murray;Colwyn Trevarthen

  • What infants' imitations communicate: With mothers, with fathers and with peers.

    Colwyn Trevarthen;Theano Kokkinaki;Geraldo A. Fiamenghi Jr.

  • Intersubjectivité chez le nourrisson : recherche, théorie et application clinique

    Colwyn Trevarthen;Kenneth J. Aitken

  • Brain development, infant communication, and empathy disorders: Intrinsic factors in child mental health

    Colwyn Trevarthen;Kenneth J. Aitken

  • Autism as a developmental disorder in intentional movement and affective engagement

    Colwyn Trevarthen;Jonathan T. Delafield-Butt

  • The self born in intersubjectivity: The psychology of an infant communicating

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  • What is it like to be a person who knows nothing? Defining the active intersubjective mind of a newborn human being

    Colwyn Trevarthen

  • The Dance of Wellbeing: Defining the Musical Therapeutic Effect

    Colwyn Trevarthen;Stephen N. Malloch

  • Disorganized rhythm and synchrony: early signs of autism and Rett syndrome.

    Colwyn Trevarthen;Stuart Daniel

  • The ontogenesis of narrative: from moving to meaning.

    Jonathan T. Delafield-Butt;Colwyn Trevarthen

  • Perceptual unity of the ambient visual field in human commissurotomy patients.

    Colwyn Trevarthen;R. W. Sperry

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynne Murray
Lynne Murray University of Reading
Vasudevi Reddy
Vasudevi Reddy University of Portsmouth
Tiffany Field
Tiffany Field University of Miami
Jacqueline Nadel
Jacqueline Nadel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Dale F. Hay
Dale F. Hay Cardiff University
Steven Brown
Steven Brown McMaster University
Mario Liotti
Mario Liotti University of Padua

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