Dr. Yaara Endevelt-Shapira and colleagues presented research results in a poster at the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD conference). The poster is titled “How mother-infant inter-brain synchrony is affected by the context of the interaction and speech input?” In this result, Mother-infant face-to-face interaction in a 2-brain experiment at three months shows neural synchrony between the two brains, which predicts word production at 15 months.
From the poster: “Previous studies underscore the importance of early social interactions for child language development. Here, we sought to uncover neural mechanisms that support language learning along with these social interactions. More specifically, we investigated how mother-infant inter-brain synchrony at 3 months of age is associated with speech input, and the context of the interaction.”
“One pathway by which early parent–infant face-to-face interactions exert their long-term influence on language development may relate to increased brain-to-brain synchrony, which in turn supports social brain maturation that is involved in language acquisition.”
