ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2024
Communicative signals during joint attention promote neural processes of infants and caregivers.
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- Rhythmic visual stimulation as a window into early brain development: A systematic review.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
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- Inter-neural co-regulation before and after an interactive perturbation in mother-infant dyads.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A two-person neuroscience perspective on parent-infant dyadic expansion of consciousness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony.Developmental review : DR · 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
- Multimodal analysis of mother-child interaction using hyperscanning and diffusion maps.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The impact of language context on inter-brain synchrony in bilingual families.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Article
- From behavioral synchrony to language and beyond.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Review
- Heart-to-heart: infant heart rate at 3 months is linked to infant-directed speech, mother-infant interaction, and later language outcomes.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Cross-cultural differences in visual object and background processing in the infant brain.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Revisiting the Object-Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesReview
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Abstract
Communicative signals such as eye contact increase infants' brain activation to visual stimuli and promote joint attention. Our study assessed whether communicative signals during joint attention enhance infant-caregiver dyads' neural responses to objects, and their neural synchrony. To track mutual attention processes, we applied rhythmic visual stimulation (RVS), presenting images of objects to 12-month-old infants and their mothers (n = 37 dyads), while we recorded dyads' brain activity (i.e., steady-state visual evoked potentials, SSVEPs) with electroencephalography (EEG) hyperscanning. Within dyads, mothers either communicatively showed the images to their infant or watched the images without communicative engagement. Communicative cues increased infants' and mothers' SSVEPs at central-occipital-parietal, and central electrode sites, respectively. Infants showed significantly more gaze behaviour to images during communicative engagement. Dyadic neural synchrony (SSVEP amplitude envelope correlations, AECs) was not modulated by communicative cues. Taken together, maternal communicative cues in joint attention increase infants' neural responses to objects, and shape mothers' own attention processes. We show that communicative cues enhance cortical visual processing, thus play an essential role in social learning. Future studies need to elucidate the effect of communicative cues on neural synchrony during joint attention. Finally, our study introduces RVS to study infant-caregiver neural dynamics in social contexts.
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