Parent-child couples display shared neural fingerprints while listening to stories.

ABSTRACT: Neural fingerprinting is a method to identify individuals from a group of people. Here, we established a new connectome-based identification model and used diffusion maps to show that biological parent-child couples share functional connectivity patterns while listening to stories. These shared fingerprints enabled the identification of children and their biological parents from a group of parents and children. Functional patterns were evident in both cognitive and sensory brain networks. Defining "typical" shared biological parent-child brain patterns may enable predicting or even preventing impaired parent-child connections that develop due to genetic or environmental causes. Finally, we argue that the proposed framework opens new opportunities to link similarities in connectivity patter

SUBMITTER: Habouba N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10838923 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature