The Effect of Parental Feedbacks on Parent-Child Brain Synchrony: An fNIRS Study (Poster 8)

• In Event: Sunday Poster Session 1:15 pm
  In Poster Session: Supporting Social-Emotional Learning, Well-Being, and Development Across the Lifespan

Abstract

Parental feedback affects children in multiple ways. However, little is known about how children, family, and feedback types affect parental feedback neural mechanisms. The current study used fNIRS-based hyperscanning to observe mother-child brain synchronisation in a jigsaw game under various conditions. Between parental negative feedback and praise conditions, mother-daughter brain in Supramarginal Gyrus (SMG), left Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), right Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG), and right primary somatic (S1) differed. When criticised, conformity family-communication-patterned families had much worse brain synchronisation in S1, left dlPFC, and right Wernicke's region than conversational families. Resilient children had better mother-child SMG synchronicity under negative feedback. This study supports the importance of studying children's neurological development in nurturing environments to assess their psychological development.

Authors

• Dake Zhang, Rutgers University

• Yihui Wang, University of Macau

• Juan Zhang, University of Macau

• Yidi Mao, University of Macau

• Chantat Leong, University of Macau

• Zhen Yuan, University of Macau