Mother-Infant Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Patterns Reflect Caregiving Profiles.

ABSTRACT: Biobehavioral synchrony, the coordination of physiological and behavioral signals between mother and infant during social contact, tunes the child's brain to the social world. Probing this mechanism from a two-brain perspective, we examine the associations between patterns of mother-infant inter-brain synchrony and the two well-studied maternal behavioral orientations-sensitivity and intrusiveness-which have repeatedly been shown to predict positive and negative socio-emotional outcomes, respectively. Using dual-electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings, we measure inter-brain connectivity between 60 mothers and their 5- to 12-month-old infants during face-to-face interaction. Thirty inter-brain connections show significantly higher correlations during the real mother-infant face-to-face inter

SUBMITTER: Endevelt-Shapira Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9953313 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature