Infants' neural sensitivity to social interactions varies by income and infant-directed speech.
Dev Psychobiol
; 64(4): e22265, 2022 02.
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ABSTRACT
Social interactions are essential for infant brain development, yet we know little about how infant functional connectivity differs between social and nonsocial contexts, or how sensitivity to differences between contexts might be related to early distal and proximal environmental factors. We compared 12-month-old infants' intrahemispheric electroencephalographic (EEG) coherence between a social and a nonsocial condition, then examined whether differences between conditions varied as a function of family economic strain and two maternal behaviors at 6 months, positive affect and infant-directed speech. We found lower EEG coherence from the frontal region to the central, parietal, temporal, and occipital regions during the social condition, but only for infants from higher-income families and infants whose mothers used higher proportions of infant-directed speech. In contrast, there were no differences between social and nonsocial conditions for infants from economically strained families or infants whose mothers used lower proportions of infant-directed speech. This study demonstrates that neural organization differs between a nonsocial baseline and a social interaction, but said differentiation is not present for infants from less privileged backgrounds. Our results underscore the importance of examining brain activity during species-typical contexts to understand the role of environmental factors in brain development.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Fala
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Interação Social
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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En
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article