The Neuroscience of Attachment

The way that I see it is, if you look at like the model of how the mind works and how the brain changes, then we start with kind of early sensory experience. That is how we kind of start scaffolding experience onto these very early primes. Warm is everything good: It's being nursed, it's being held, it’s being cuddled. Cold is the opposite; cold is bad. And so as adults say things like, what a warm person this is, or I'm warming up to this idea, or, you know, what a cold, hearted bitch,.