ArticleCognition2021
Neural synchrony predicts children's learning of novel words.
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- Recent Trends in Non-invasive Neural Recording Based Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Analysis on Multidisciplinary Human Interactions for Understanding Brain Dynamics: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
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- Protocol to investigate teacher-child neural scaffolding in executive functions and school readiness development in preschool children.PloS one · 2026Article
- HRNeurophotonics · 2026Article
- A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- Learning with others: teacher-learner brain synchrony depends on mutual gaze and joint attention.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Multimodal analysis of mother-child interaction using hyperscanning and diffusion maps.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Neural signatures of word learning during adult-child interactions.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- The contagion of neurologic Immersion predicts retail purchases.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Trajectories of brain and behaviour development in the womb, at birth and through infancy.Nature human behaviour · 2024Review
- From behavioral synchrony to language and beyond.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Review
- Attachment Reminders Trigger Widespread Synchrony across Multiple Brains.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Early social communication through music: State of the art and future perspectives.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Review
- Evaluating the impact of short educational videos on the cortical networks for mathematics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Parent-to-Child Anxiety Transmission Through Dyadic Social Dynamics: A Dynamic Developmental Model.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
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Abstract
Social interactions, such as joint book reading, have a well-studied influence on early development and language learning. Recent work has begun to investigate the neural mechanisms that underlie shared representations of input, documenting neural synchrony (measured using intersubject temporal correlations of neural activity) between individuals exposed to the same stimulus. Neural synchrony has been found to predict the quality of engagement with a stimulus and with communicative cues, but studies have yet to address how neural synchrony among children may relate to real-time learning. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), we recorded the neural activity of 45 children (3.5-4.5 years) during joint book reading with an adult experimenter. The custom children's book contained four novel words and objects embedded in an unfolding story, as well as a range of narrative details about object functions and character roles. We observed synchronized neural activity between child participants during book reading and found a positive correlation between learning and intersubject neural synchronization in parietal cortex, an area implicated in narrative-level processing in adult research. Our findings suggest that signature patterns of neural engagement with the dynamics of stories facilitate children's learning.
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