Functional neural network connectivity at 3 months predicts infant-mother dyadic flexibility during play at 6 months.

ABSTRACT: Early functioning of neural networks likely underlies the flexible switching between internal and external orientation and may be key to the infant's ability to effectively engage in social interactions. To test this hypothesis, we examined the association between infants' neural networks at 3 months and infant-mother dyadic flexibility (denoting the structural variability of their interaction dynamics) at 3, 6, and 9 months. Participants included thirty-five infants (37% girls) and their mothers (87% White). At 3 months, infants participated in a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging session, and functional connectivity (FC) within the default mode (DMN) and salience (SN) networks, as well as DMN-SN internetwork FC, were derived using a seed-based approach. When infants were

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10321085 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature