Dynamics of frontal alpha asymmetry in mother-infant dyads: Insights from the Still Face Paradigm

Perone, Sammy; Gartstein, Maria A.; Anderson, Alana J.

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101500

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“…Although previous research and reviews have focused on the hormonal and brain underpinnings of mammalian paternal caregiving [92,93], the present systematic review further adds to the research field by providing an updated, human-focused review that specifically reports on fathers' functional brain responses to child-related stimuli. It should be highlighted that the study of live brain-to-brain interactions is increasingly becoming possible due to hyper-scanning techniques [94][95][96]. Consistently, the present systematic presentation of paternal neural networks that may be recruited in live father-child interactions appears to be timely and it might benefit future studies in this promising neuroscientific and developmental field.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 53%

The Paternal Brain in Action: A Review of Human Fathers’ fMRI Brain Responses to Child-Related Stimuli

Provenzi¹,

Lindstedt

Coen

et al. 2021

Brain Sciences

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As fathers are increasingly involved in childcare, understanding the neurological underpinnings of fathering has become a key research issue in developmental psychobiology research. This systematic review specifically focused on (1) highlighting methodological issues of paternal brain research using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and (2) summarizing findings related to paternal brain responses to auditory and visual infant stimuli. Sixteen papers were included from 157 retrieved records. Sample characteristics (e.g., fathers’ and infant’s age, number of kids, and time spent caregiving), neuroimaging information (e.g., technique, task, stimuli, and processing), and main findings were synthesized by two independent authors. Most of the reviewed works used different stimuli and tasks to test fathers’ responses to child visual and/or auditory stimuli. Pre-processing and first-level analyses were performed with standard pipelines. Greater heterogeneity emerged in second-level analyses. Three main cortical networks (mentalization, embodied simulation, and emotion regulation) and a subcortical network emerged linked with fathers’ responses to infants’ stimuli, but additional areas (e.g., frontal gyrus, posterior cingulate cortex) were also responsive to infants’ visual or auditory stimuli. This review suggests that a distributed and complex brain network may be involved in facilitating fathers’ sensitivity and responses to infant-related stimuli. Nonetheless, specific methodological caveats, the exploratory nature of large parts of the literature to date, and the presence of heterogeneous tasks and measures also demonstrate that systematic improvements in study designs are needed to further advance the field.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 53%

The Paternal Brain in Action: A Review of Human Fathers’ fMRI Brain Responses to Child-Related Stimuli

Provenzi¹,

Lindstedt

Coen

et al. 2021

Brain Sciences

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“…Besides sex differences, parental mental health is of major importance for child socioemotional development. For example, parent–child EEG already showed that expression of positive emotions from the mother was associated with more frontal alpha asymmetry (Atzaba‐Poria et al., 2017; Perone et al., 2020) and showing stronger brain‐to‐brain alpha connectivity between mother and infant (Santamaria et al., 2020). The other way around, diminished fNIRS‐based brain‐to‐brain synchrony between mother and child (4–5 years old) showed to be associated with longer periods of the child's irritability after a frustrating period (Quinones‐Camacho et al., 2020).…”

Section: Potential and Future Directions For Developmental Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research

Turk

Vroomen

Fonken

et al. 2022

Developmental Psychobiology

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Healthy interaction between parent and child is foundational for the child's socioemotional development. Recently, an innovative paradigm shift in electroencephalography (EEG) research has enabled the simultaneous measurement of neural activity in caregiver and child. This dual-EEG or hyperscanning approach, termed parent-child dual-EEG, combines the strength of both behavioral observations and EEG methods.In this review, we aim to inform on the potential of dual-EEG in parents and children (0-6 years) for developmental researchers. We first provide a general overview of the dual-EEG technique and continue by reviewing the first empirical work on the emerging field of parent-child dual-EEG, discussing the limited but fascinating findings on parent-child brain-to-behavior and brain-to-brain synchrony. We then continue by providing an overview of dual-EEG analysis techniques, including the technical challenges and solutions one may encounter. We finish by discussing the potential of parent-child dual-EEG for the future of developmental research. The analysis of multiple EEG data is technical and challenging, but when performed well, parent-child EEG may transform the way we understand how caregiver and child connect on a neurobiological level. Importantly, studying objective physiological measures of parent-child interactions could lead to the identification of novel brain-to-brain synchrony markers of interaction quality.

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“…As the building blocks of social cognition emerge early on in human development, hyperscanning has gained momentum among developmental researchers in recent years. Hyperscanning studies involving developmental populations have addressed a variety of social exchanges including interactions between infants and adults using EEG ( Leong et al, 2017 , Leong et al, 2019 , Perone et al, 2020 , Santamaria et al, 2020 , Wass et al, 2018 ) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS; Nguyen et al, 2020 , Nguyen et al, 2021 ; Piazza et al, 2020 ); interactions between children and adults using EEG ( Bevilacqua et al, 2019 ), magnetoencephalography (MEG; Hasegawa et al, 2016 ; Hirata et al, 2014 ) and fNIRS ( Azhari et al, 2019 , Hoyniak et al, 2021 , Kruppa et al, 2021 , Miller et al, 2019 , Quiñones‐Camacho et al, 2020 , Reindl et al, 2018 , Reindl et al, 2021 ); and interactions between child and adolescent peers using EEG ( Dikker et al, 2017 , Dikker et al, 2021 ) and fNIRS ( Piazza et al, 2021 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

DEEP: A dual EEG pipeline for developmental hyperscanning studies

Kayhan

Matthes

Haresign

et al. 2022

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Dynamics of frontal alpha asymmetry in mother-infant dyads: Insights from the Still Face Paradigm

Cited by 22 publications

References 73 publications

The Paternal Brain in Action: A Review of Human Fathers’ fMRI Brain Responses to Child-Related Stimuli

The Paternal Brain in Action: A Review of Human Fathers’ fMRI Brain Responses to Child-Related Stimuli

In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research

DEEP: A dual EEG pipeline for developmental hyperscanning studies

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