In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research
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2022-03
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16
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Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 64, issue 3
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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.Description
Funding Information: This work was financially supported by the Dutch Scientific Council (NWO; VI.Veni.191G.025; PI: van den Heuvel) and the Sara van Dam z.l. Foundation, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (PIs: van den Heuvel, Levy). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC
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brain development, EEG, hyperscanning, neural synchrony, parent–child interaction
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Turk, E, Vroomen, J, Fonken, Y, Levy, J & van den Heuvel, M I 2022, ' In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research ', Developmental Psychobiology, vol. 64, no. 3, e22221, pp. 1-16 . https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22221