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DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 48, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100937
Keywords
Adversity; Parent-Child Neural Synchrony; fNIRS
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 MH107540]
- National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH T32 MH10001906]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [174745]
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The study found a link between adversity and decreased parent-child behavioral and neural synchrony.
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. Parentchild 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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