Mother-infant brain and behavioral synchrony

• Grant number: 24/21288-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: February 01, 2025
• End date: January 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Physiological Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Ana Alexandra Caldas Osório
• Grantee: Isis Angelica Segura
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM). Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 21/06693-4 - The importance of social touch for infant social-emotional development: integrating neuroimaging, psychophysiological, endocrine, and behavioral evidence, AP.JP2

Abstract

Interpersonal synchrony concerns the coordination of behaviors, emotions, physiological states and neural activity between individuals. Studies have shown that mother-child synchrony is important for social, cognitive and emotional development, especially during the first years of life (Abraham et al., 2021). The main aim of this study is to characterize the neural and behavioral (gaze, affect and vocalization) synchrony between mothers and their 6-month-old infants during faceto-face interactions, as well as to analyze the links between synchrony in these two modalities (neural and behavioral).