Citation

Lee TH, Miernicki ME, Telzer EH. Neuroimage 2017; 152: 31-37.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC); Department of Psychology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Electronic address: ehtelzer@unc.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.078

PMID

28254510

Abstract

Despite emerging evidence suggesting a biological basis to our social tiles, our understanding of the neural processes which link two minds is unknown. We implemented a novel approach, which included connectome similarity analysis using resting state intrinsic networks of parent-child dyads as well as daily diaries measured across 14 days. Intrinsic resting-state networks for both parents and their adolescent child were identified using independent component analysis (ICA).

RESULTS indicate that parents and children who had more similar RSN connectome also had more similar day-to-day emotional synchrony. Furthermore, dyadic RSN connectome similarity was associated with children's emotional competence, suggesting that being neurally in-tune with their parents confers emotional benefits. We provide the first evidence that dyadic RSN similarity is associated with emotional synchrony in what is often our first and most essential social bond, the parent-child relationship.

Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Inc.

Language: en

Keywords

emotional synchrony; functional connectome similarity; independent component analysis (ICA); parent-child dyad; resting-state fMRI