Parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction.
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 s...
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| author | Sam V Wass Valdas Noreika Stanimira Georgieva Kaili Clackson Laura Brightman Rebecca Nutbrown Lorena Santamaria Covarrubias Vicky Leong |
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| description | 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 closely tracked and responded to changes in their infants' attention. Further, instances in which parents showed greater neural responsivity were associated with longer sustained attention by infants. Our results offer new insights into how one partner influences another during social interaction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-166bb1c79fd44e95b27d5dcabdef57132022-12-21T23:31:12ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Biology1544-91731545-78852018-12-011612e200632810.1371/journal.pbio.2006328Parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction.Sam V WassValdas NoreikaStanimira GeorgievaKaili ClacksonLaura BrightmanRebecca NutbrownLorena Santamaria CovarrubiasVicky LeongAlmost 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 closely tracked and responded to changes in their infants' attention. Further, instances in which parents showed greater neural responsivity were associated with longer sustained attention by infants. Our results offer new insights into how one partner influences another during social interaction.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006328 |
| spellingShingle | Sam V Wass Valdas Noreika Stanimira Georgieva Kaili Clackson Laura Brightman Rebecca Nutbrown Lorena Santamaria Covarrubias Vicky Leong Parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction. PLoS Biology |
| title | Parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction. |
| title_full | Parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction. |
| title_fullStr | Parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction. |
| title_short | Parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention: How mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction. |
| title_sort | parental neural responsivity to infants visual attention how mature brains influence immature brains during social interaction |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006328 |
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