The effects of interaction quality on neural synchrony during mother-child problem solving

Nguyen, Trinh; Schleihauf, Hanna; Kayhan, Ezgi; Matthes, Daniel; Vrtička, Pascal; Hoehl, Stefanie

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2019.11.020

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“…Supportive of mentality theory there is now considerable evidence that mother and baby can synchronise processes within their autonomic and central nervous systems. These synchronies can be thought of as symphonies and dances between their physiological systems that profoundly impact phenotypes for subsequent prosocial behavior and mental health (Lunkenheimer, et al, 2015;Nguyen, et al, 2020). Furthermore, there is good evidence that the vagus plays a major role in prosocial behavior and caring and compassion in general (Keltner et al, 2014;Petrocchi and Cheli, 2019;Di Bello et al, 2020).…”

Section: Caring and The Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapy

2020

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The concept, benefits and recommendations for the cultivation of compassion have been recognized in the contemplative traditions for thousands of years. In the last 30 years or so, the study of compassion has revealed it to have major physiological and psychological effects influencing well-being, addressing mental health difficulties, and promoting prosocial behavior. This paper outlines an evolution informed biopsychosocial, multicomponent model to caring behavior and its derivative “compassion” that underpins newer approaches to psychotherapy. The paper explores the origins of caring motives and the nature and biopsychosocial functions of caring-attachment behavior. These include providing a secure base (sources of protection, validation, encouragement and guidance) and safe haven (source of soothing and comfort) for offspring along with physiological regulating functions, which are also central for compassion focused therapy. Second, it suggests that it is the way recent human cognitive competencies give rise to different types of “mind awareness” and “knowing intentionality” that transform basic caring motives into potentials for compassion. While we can care for our gardens and treasured objects, the concept of compassion is only used for sentient beings who can “suffer.” As psychotherapy addresses mental suffering, cultivating the motives and competencies of compassion to self and others can be a central focus for psychotherapy.

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Section: Caring and The Bodymentioning

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Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapy

2020

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“…As it is the most common method that is used to analyze interbrain synchrony with fNIRS, it is also the most common analysis method within all hyperscanning studies. WTC was used to estimate inter-brain synchrony in paradigms studying action monitoring (Dommer et al, 2012), cooperative and competitive behaviors (Cui et al, 2012;Osaka et al, 2014;Cheng et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2016b;Wang et al, 2019), imitation , verbal communication (Jiang et al, 2012(Jiang et al, , 2015Nozawa et al, 2016), non-verbal communication (Osaka et al, 2015;Hirsch et al, 2017), decision making (Tang et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2017), coordination Ikeda et al, 2017;Pan et al, 2017) , mother-child problem solving (Nguyen et al, 2019), and teaching/learning behaviors .…”

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confidence: 99%

Hyperscanning: A Valid Method to Study Neural Inter-brain Underpinnings of Social Interaction

Czeszumski

Eustergerling

Lang

et al. 2020

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Social interactions are a crucial part of human life. Understanding the neural underpinnings of social interactions is a challenging task that the hyperscanning method has been trying to tackle over the last two decades. Here, we review the existing literature and evaluate the current state of the hyperscanning method. We review the type of methods (fMRI, M/EEG, and fNIRS) that are used to measure brain activity from more than one participant simultaneously and weigh their pros and cons for hyperscanning. Further, we discuss different types of analyses that are used to estimate brain networks and synchronization. Lastly, we present results of hyperscanning studies in the context of different cognitive functions and their relations to social interactions. All in all, we aim to comprehensively present methods, analyses, and results from the last 20 years of hyperscanning research.

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“…Infants' attentional bias to their mothers compared to a stranger correlates with medial PFC activation (Imafuku et al 2014), suggesting a link between socially motivated behavior and medial PFC function. One application of fNIRS is the simultaneous neural measurements of interacting dyads in naturalistic social settings (Quaresima & Ferrari 2019), such as parents and their children (Nguyen et al 2020). Infants interacting with an adult show temporally synchronized medial PFC responses (Piazza et al 2019), which implicates this brain region as a developmental driver of the neural coupling that typically happens during natural communication (Hasson & Frith 2016).…”

Section: The Social Brain: Evidence From Infantsmentioning

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Learning in Infancy Is Active, Endogenously Motivated, and Depends on the Prefrontal Cortices

Raz

Saxe

2020

Annu. Rev. Dev. Psychol.

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A common view of learning in infancy emphasizes the role of incidental sensory experiences from which increasingly abstract statistical regularities are extracted. In this view, infant brains initially support basic sensory and motor functions, followed by maturation of higher-level association cortex. Here, we critique this view and posit that, by contrast and more like adults, infants are active, endogenously motivated learners who structure their own learning through flexible selection of attentional targets and active interventions on their environment. We further argue that the infant brain, and particularly the prefrontal cortex (PFC), is well equipped to support these learning behaviors. We review recent progress in characterizing the function of the infant PFC, which suggests that, as in adults, the PFC is functionally specialized and highly connected. Together, we present an integrative account of infant minds and brains, in which the infant PFC represents multiple intrinsic motivations, which are leveraged for active learning. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, Volume 2 is December 15, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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The effects of interaction quality on neural synchrony during mother-child problem solving

Cited by 161 publications

References 70 publications

Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapy

Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapy

Hyperscanning: A Valid Method to Study Neural Inter-brain Underpinnings of Social Interaction

Learning in Infancy Is Active, Endogenously Motivated, and Depends on the Prefrontal Cortices

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