The fetus/infant - mother as a co-evolving dyadic system and the development of attachment styles: an active inference perspective

The mother–fetus/infant dyad constitutes a uniquely asymmetric biological and psychological system whose co-evolutionary dynamics we propose are most coherently understood within the Active Inference Framework (AIF). We hypothesize that the development of attachment styles emerges from the progressive construction of a generative model in the fetus and infant, shaped by the precision and content of predictions learned through early dyadic interactions — beginning already during the gestational p