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Speaker gaze increases information coupling between infant and adult brains.
Leong, Victoria; Byrne, Elizabeth; Clackson, Kaili; Georgieva, Stanimira; Lam, Sarah; Wass, Sam.
Afiliação
  • Leong V; Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom; vvec2@cam.ac.uk.
  • Byrne E; Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637332, Republic of Singapore.
  • Clackson K; MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 7EF, United Kingdom.
  • Georgieva S; Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom.
  • Lam S; Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom.
  • Wass S; Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 114(50): 13290-13295, 2017 12 12.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29183980
ABSTRACT
When infants and adults communicate, they exchange social signals of availability and communicative intention such as eye gaze. Previous research indicates that when communication is successful, close temporal dependencies arise between adult speakers' and listeners' neural activity. However, it is not known whether similar neural contingencies exist within adult-infant dyads. Here, we used dual-electroencephalography to assess whether direct gaze increases neural coupling between adults and infants during screen-based and live interactions. In experiment 1 (n = 17), infants viewed videos of an adult who was singing nursery rhymes with (i) direct gaze (looking forward), (ii) indirect gaze (head and eyes averted by 20°), or (iii) direct-oblique gaze (head averted but eyes orientated forward). In experiment 2 (n = 19), infants viewed the same adult in a live context, singing with direct or indirect gaze. Gaze-related changes in adult-infant neural network connectivity were measured using partial directed coherence. Across both experiments, the adult had a significant (Granger) causal influence on infants' neural activity, which was stronger during direct and direct-oblique gaze relative to indirect gaze. During live interactions, infants also influenced the adult more during direct than indirect gaze. Further, infants vocalized more frequently during live direct gaze, and individual infants who vocalized longer also elicited stronger synchronization from the adult. These results demonstrate that direct gaze strengthens bidirectional adult-infant neural connectivity during communication. Thus, ostensive social signals could act to bring brains into mutual temporal alignment, creating a joint-networked state that is structured to facilitate information transfer during early communication and learning.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Percepção da Fala / Encéfalo / Fixação Ocular / Comunicação não Verbal Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Percepção da Fala / Encéfalo / Fixação Ocular / Comunicação não Verbal Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article