The Parent and Child Brains: Interpersonal Neuroscience Promotes Developmental Research
1. Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China;
2. State Key Lab of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Abstract:In the past decade, the field of developmental psychology has witnessed a great paradigm shift, as more and more research has begun to explore parent-child interactions using interpersonal neuroscience approaches, such as recording the brain activity of both parents and children and calculating brain-to-brain synchrony. However, the relationship between parent-child interaction and brain-to-brain synchrony has not yet been systematically explored. To address this issue, this paper reviews the classical studies of brain-to-brain synchrony during parent-child interaction, and then further proposes important paths to understand brain-to-brain synchrony based on parent-child interaction, and parent-child interaction based on brain-to-brain synchrony. In addition, the causal relationship between brain-to-brain synchrony and parent-child interaction is discussed. Future research could promote developmental interpersonal neuroscience around horizontal and vertical research design and computational modeling.