Parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction.

ABSTRACT: Almost all attention and learning-in particular, most early learning-take place in social settings. But little is known of how our brains support dynamic social interactions. We recorded dual electroencephalography (EEG) from 12-month-old infants and parents during solo play and joint play. During solo play, fluctuations in infants' theta power significantly forward-predicted their subsequent attentional behaviours. However, this forward-predictiveness was lower during joint play than solo play, suggesting that infants' endogenous neural control over attention is greater during solo play. Overall, however, infants were more attentive to the objects during joint play. To understand why, we examined how adult brain activity related to infant attention. We found that parents' theta power clos

SUBMITTER: Wass SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6292577 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature