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Neurobehavioral Interpersonal Synchrony in Early Development: The Role of Interactional Rhythms

Social interactions are essential for understanding others’ actions and their mental and affective states. Specifically, interpersonal coordination – also referred to as synchrony – allows actors to adjust their behaviors to one another and thus demonstrate their connectedness to each other. Much be...

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Autores principales: Markova, Gabriela, Nguyen, Trinh, Hoehl, Stefanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6759699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31620046
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02078
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Nguyen, Trinh
Hoehl, Stefanie
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description Social interactions are essential for understanding others’ actions and their mental and affective states. Specifically, interpersonal coordination – also referred to as synchrony – allows actors to adjust their behaviors to one another and thus demonstrate their connectedness to each other. Much behavioral research has demonstrated the primacy of mutually synchronized social exchanges in early development. Additionally, new methodological advances now allow us to examine interpersonal synchrony not only at the behavioral and physiological but also neural level. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how infants and their caregivers actually achieve interpersonal synchrony in their exchanges. Here we discuss recent evidence showing that adults provide rhythmical information during early social interactions with their infants, such as affective touch and singing. We propose that entrainment to these social rhythms underlies the formation of interpersonal synchrony and thus stimulates reciprocal interactions between infants and their caregivers.
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spelling pubmed-67596992019-10-16 Neurobehavioral Interpersonal Synchrony in Early Development: The Role of Interactional Rhythms Markova, Gabriela Nguyen, Trinh Hoehl, Stefanie Front Psychol Psychology Social interactions are essential for understanding others’ actions and their mental and affective states. Specifically, interpersonal coordination – also referred to as synchrony – allows actors to adjust their behaviors to one another and thus demonstrate their connectedness to each other. Much behavioral research has demonstrated the primacy of mutually synchronized social exchanges in early development. Additionally, new methodological advances now allow us to examine interpersonal synchrony not only at the behavioral and physiological but also neural level. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how infants and their caregivers actually achieve interpersonal synchrony in their exchanges. Here we discuss recent evidence showing that adults provide rhythmical information during early social interactions with their infants, such as affective touch and singing. We propose that entrainment to these social rhythms underlies the formation of interpersonal synchrony and thus stimulates reciprocal interactions between infants and their caregivers. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6759699/ /pubmed/31620046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02078 Text en Copyright © 2019 Markova, Nguyen and Hoehl. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Neurobehavioral Interpersonal Synchrony in Early Development: The Role of Interactional Rhythms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6759699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31620046
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02078
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