Tal Yatziv, PhD
Assistant Professor Adjunct in the Child Study CenterDownloadHi-Res Photo
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Assistant Professor Adjunct in the Child Study Center
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Tal Yatziv, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Child Study Center, working under the mentorship of Dr. Helena Rutherford. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel in 2019. Her research interests focus on the interplay between cognitive and affective processes in shaping early parenting and infant socioemotional development. Specifically, Dr. Yatziv studies the contributions of cognitive control and automatic processing to how parents understand their children's thoughts and feelings, focusing on parental processing of infant cues, parental mentalization, and parental sensitive-responsiveness. In her research, she combines reaction-time and accuracy-based cognitive performance measures and computational modeling (e.g., evidence accumulation modeling), together with observation-based ecological methods (e.g., videotaped parent-infant interactions), to gain insights into how adaptive parenting unfolds in time.
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Child Development; Mental Disorders; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting; Psychological Phenomena
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A big-picture view of Tal Yatziv's research output by year.
Helena Rutherford, PhD
Amanda Lowell, PhD
Thomas McMahon, PhD
13Publications
97Citations
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2024
Anxiety and neural correlates of attention and self-regulation in pregnancy: a resting-state EEG study
Levy J, Yatziv T, Bunderson M, Bartz C, Vancor E, Rutherford H. Anxiety and neural correlates of attention and self-regulation in pregnancy: a resting-state EEG study. Archives Of Women's Mental Health 2024, 1-11. PMID: 39214911, DOI: 10.1007/s00737-024-01505-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsConceptsPregnancy-related anxietySelf-regulationBeta oscillationsNeural markersNeural markers of attentionNeural correlates of attentionSelf-regulation difficultiesMarkers of attentionDelta-beta couplingMental health difficultiesCorrelates of attentionResting-state EEG studiesGeneral populationPrefrontal regionsAttentional processesNeural correlatesAttentional controlGeneralized anxietyMind-wanderingCognitive functionHealth difficultiesNeural patternsAnxietyEEG sessionEEG studiesThe association between maternal and child posttraumatic stress symptoms among families living in southern Israel: The buffering role of maternal executive functions
Levy M, Yatziv T, Levavi K, Yakov P, Pike A, Deater‐Deckard K, Hadar A, Bar G, Froimovici M, Atzaba‐Poria N. The association between maternal and child posttraumatic stress symptoms among families living in southern Israel: The buffering role of maternal executive functions. Stress And Health 2024, 40: e3456. PMID: 39116030, DOI: 10.1002/smi.3456.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricConceptsChild posttraumatic stress symptomsPosttraumatic stress symptomsParental executive functioningMaternal executive functionExecutive functionThreat contextStress symptomsUpdating abilityContext of parent-child interactionsMaternal posttraumatic stress symptomsHigh-level cognitive processesPosttraumatic stress disorderGoal-directed behaviorStress-buffering effectsHigh‐threat contextsModerating rolePositive parenting interactionsParent-child interactionsEffective coping skillsAnxiety responsesStress disorderComputerised taskCognitive processesTraumatic eventsChildren's symptomsMaternal Perceptions and Responsiveness to Cry in Armed Conflict Zones: Links to Child Behavior Problems
Levavi K, Yatziv T, Yakov P, Pike A, Deater-Deckard K, Hadar A, Bar G, Froimovici M, Atzaba-Poria N. Maternal Perceptions and Responsiveness to Cry in Armed Conflict Zones: Links to Child Behavior Problems. Research On Child And Adolescent Psychopathology 2024, 52: 1455-1468. PMID: 38833107, PMCID: PMC11420313, DOI: 10.1007/s10802-024-01207-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricConceptsChild behavior problemsBehavior problemsCry perceptionMaternal perceptionParental caregiving behaviorsIndirect effectsPerception of cryingSample of mothersExternalizing problemsCry processingCaregiving behaviorGroup differencesInfant behaviorMaternal responsivenessAuditory warning signalsCrying responseFirst-born childrenComparison groupParents' perceptionsConflict zonesHigher perceptionSurrounding threatsChildrenInfant survivalArmed conflict zone
2023
Envisioning motherhood: Mental‐state language in caregiving narratives across the perinatal period
Rutherford H, Yatziv T, Vess M, Brooker R. Envisioning motherhood: Mental‐state language in caregiving narratives across the perinatal period. Infant Mental Health Journal 2023, 44: 218-227. PMID: 36862383, PMCID: PMC10559800, DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22048.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsMental state languageCognitive mentalizingCaregiving representationsParental mentalizationMaternal mentalizationMentalizationMental healthMaternal addictionStudy limitationsModerate consistencyLanguagePositive sentimentMentalizingMonths postpartumMothersNarrativesCaregivingWhite mothersPerinatal periodAddictionHigher useTime pointsRelative dominanceImplicationsSentiment
2022
Reflective functioning in mothers with addictions: Differential relationships involving family history of mental illness and substance use
Lowell A, Yatziv T, Peacock-Chambers E, Zayde A, DeCoste C, Suchman N, McMahon T. Reflective functioning in mothers with addictions: Differential relationships involving family history of mental illness and substance use. Frontiers In Psychology 2022, 13: 911069. PMID: 36312152, PMCID: PMC9614557, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911069.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsConceptsMaternal mental illnessMaternal substance useFamily historyParental mental illnessMental illnessSubstance useOutpatient substance use treatmentPaternal mental illnessSubstance use treatmentIllnessReflective functioningUse treatmentMothersMother's capacityAddictionEarly experienceTraumaParent Development InterviewParental reflective functioningExposureUnivariate ANOVAParental Mentalizing During a Pandemic: Use of Mental-State Language on Parenting Social Media Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yatziv T, Simchon A, Manco N, Gilead M, Rutherford H. Parental Mentalizing During a Pandemic: Use of Mental-State Language on Parenting Social Media Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Clinical Psychological Science 2022, 10: 1129-1150. DOI: 10.1177/21677026211062612.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2021
Maternal perinatal anxiety and neural responding to infant affective signals: Insights, challenges, and a road map for neuroimaging research
Yatziv T, Vancor EA, Bunderson M, Rutherford HJV. Maternal perinatal anxiety and neural responding to infant affective signals: Insights, challenges, and a road map for neuroimaging research. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2021, 131: 387-399. PMID: 34563563, PMCID: PMC8642296, DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.043.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsInfant cuesSensitive responsivenessMothers' sensitive responsivenessFunctional neuroimaging studiesMaternal perinatal anxietyPerinatal maternal anxietyPerinatal anxietyCue valenceNeural correlatesAffective signalsSensitive caregivingNeuroimaging studiesCore facetsAnxiety symptomsLongitudinal investigationNeural circuitryMixed findingsDepression symptomsMaternal anxietyAnxietyCuesFuture researchTemporal dynamicsCaregivingCurrent research
2020
When do mothers' executive functions contribute to their representations of their child's mind? A contextual view on parental reflective functioning and mind-mindedness.
Yatziv T, Kessler Y, Atzaba-Poria N. When do mothers' executive functions contribute to their representations of their child's mind? A contextual view on parental reflective functioning and mind-mindedness. Developmental Psychology 2020, 56: 1191-1206. PMID: 32338933, DOI: 10.1037/dev0000931.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsExecutive functionParental reflective functioningReflective functioningChild's mindMental statesEF tasksFull-term childrenSpontaneous attributionsStressful contextsMaternal mentalizationParents' capacityPreschool childrenContextual viewMindChildrenFunctioningPreterm groupMentalizationCoparentingMothersAutomaticityAttributionPerceptionDissatisfactionTaskPrematurity and Maladaptive Mealtime Dynamics: the Roles of Maternal Emotional Distress, Eating-Related Cognitions, and Mind-Mindedness
Yatziv T, Gueron-Sela N, Meiri G, Marks K, Atzaba-Poria N. Prematurity and Maladaptive Mealtime Dynamics: the Roles of Maternal Emotional Distress, Eating-Related Cognitions, and Mind-Mindedness. Research On Child And Adolescent Psychopathology 2020, 48: 1089-1103. PMID: 32377916, DOI: 10.1007/s10802-020-00639-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsEmotional distressMaternal cognitionsChild vulnerabilityMultiple mediation analysisMaternal emotional distressMultiple mediator modelHigh emotional distressMental statesChildren's eatingCognitionEatingDistressIndirect pathwaysFeeding disordersPerceptionConstitute risk factorsDisordersPreterm newbornsPremature birthRisk factorsPrematurityVulnerabilityChildrenImplicationsMothers
2018
What’s going on in my baby’s mind? Mothers’ executive functions contribute to individual differences in maternal mentalization during mother-infant interactions
Yatziv T, Kessler Y, Atzaba-Poria N. What’s going on in my baby’s mind? Mothers’ executive functions contribute to individual differences in maternal mentalization during mother-infant interactions. PLOS ONE 2018, 13: e0207869. PMID: 30500853, PMCID: PMC6267990, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207869.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsMother-infant interactionExecutive functionResponse inhibitionMaternal mentalizationFree-play interactionsMemory updatingCognitive mechanismsInfant-related factorsCognitive tasksPsychological agentIndividual differencesStressful contextsChild temperamentInfant temperamentBaby's mindPlay interactionsInfant behaviorMother's capacityMentalizationTemperamentChildrenMothers' resistanceMindParentingFull-term infants
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