ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2021
Adversity is Linked with Decreased Parent-Child Behavioral and Neural Synchrony.
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- A Systematic Review on Parent-Child Synchrony: The Role of Stress, Resilience and Psychopathology.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Advances and trends in the application of functional near-infrared spectroscopy for pediatric assessments: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
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- Parent-Child Neural Similarity and Synchrony: Toward an Integrative Framework.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2026Review
- Mother-Child Synchrony and Behavioral Problems in Chinese Children: A Preliminary fNIRS-Hyperscanning Study.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Child and parent behavioral and physiological reactivity to threat and distress predict children's proactive and reactive aggression.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Utilizing functional neuroimaging to study early language development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Mother-Child Neurophysiological Synchrony Moderates the Relation Between Maternal Affect Experiences and Child Emotion Dysregulation.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- A Systematic Review of Inter-Brain Synchrony and Psychological Conditions: Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Autism and Other Disorders.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Constructing the "Family Personality": Can Family Functioning Be Linked to Parent-Child Interpersonal Neural Synchronization?Journal of personality · 2025Article
- Neural hyperscanning in caregiver-child dyads: A paradigm for studying the long-term effects of facilitated vs. disrupted attention on working memory and executive functioning in young children.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- The impact of language context on inter-brain synchrony in bilingual families.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Article
- Caregiver-child neural synchrony: Magic, mirage, or developmental mechanism?Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Analytical pipeline optimisation in developmental fNIRS hyperscanning data: Neural coherence between 4- to 6-year old children collaborating with their mothers.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Sensitive infant care tunes a frontotemporal interbrain network in adolescence.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A context-dependent model of resilient functioning after childhood maltreatment-the case for flexible biobehavioral synchrony.Translational psychiatry · 2024Review
- A network approach to the investigation of childhood irritability: probing frustration using social stimuli.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Article
- Family socioeconomic status and adolescent substance use: The role of parent-adolescent brain similarity and parental monitoring.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2024Article
- How parent-child brain-to-brain synchrony can inform the study of child development.Child development perspectives · 2024Article
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Abstract
Parent-child synchrony-parent-child interaction patterns characterized by contingent social responding, mutual responsivity, and co-regulation-has been robustly associated with adaptive child outcomes. Synchrony has been investigated in both behavioral and biological frameworks. While it has been demonstrated that adversity can influence behavioral parent-child synchrony, the neural mechanisms by which this disruption occurs are understudied. The current study examined the association between adversity, parent-child behavioral synchrony, and parent-child neural synchrony across lateral prefrontal cortical regions using functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning during a parent-child interaction task that included a mild stress induction followed by a recovery period. Participants included 115 children (ages 4-5) and their primary caregivers. Parent-child behavioral synchrony was quantified as the amount time the dyad was synchronous (e.g., reciprocal communication, coordinated behaviors) during the interaction task. Parent-child neural synchrony was examined as the hemodynamic concordance between parent and child lateral PFC activation. Adversity was examined across two, empirically-derived domains: sociodemographic risk (e.g., family income) and familial risk (e.g., household chaos). Adversity, across domains, was associated with decreased parent-child behavioral synchrony across task conditions. Sociodemographic risk was associated with decreased parent-child neural synchrony in the context of experimentally-induced stress. These findings link adversity to decreased parent-child behavioral and neural synchrony.
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