{"id":107380,"date":"2024-09-27T04:58:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107380"},"modified":"2024-09-27T04:58:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:58:46","slug":"caregiver-cognition-linked-to-infant-brain-and-visual-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107380","title":{"rendered":"Caregiver Cognition Linked to Infant Brain and Visual Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Researchers have found that caregiver cognition is associated with infant visual cognition and brain function. The study revealed that infants\u2019 ability to detect visual changes is connected to their caregivers\u2019 visual cognition and behavioral regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Brain imaging also showed similarities in how both caregivers and infants process information in the parietal cortex, a key brain region for attention and memory. These findings highlight the cognitive links between caregivers and infants in the first year of life and could lead to customized interventions for early development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Facts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Caregiver cognition is linked to infant visual cognition and brain function.<\/li>\n<li>Both infants and caregivers show similar brain activity in the parietal cortex.<\/li>\n<li>The study suggests potential for customized interventions based on caregiver behavior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>University of Nottingham<\/p>\n<p><strong>New research using experimental and brain imaging tools has shown that there is an association between caregiver and child cognition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Nottingham\u2019s School of Psychology examined infant visual cognition\u2014important for how they navigate the world around them, engage with objects, and learn new concepts. The team explored whether\u00a0caregiver\u00a0cognitive functions would be associated with infant visual cognition.<\/p>\n<p>The research has been published in the journals\u00a0<em>Infant Behavior and Development<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Infant and Child Development<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><picture fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104765\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence.jpg.webp 1200w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-300x200.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-770x513.jpg.webp 770w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-1155x770.jpg.webp 1155w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-370x247.jpg.webp 370w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-293x195.jpg.webp 293w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-150x100.jpg.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence.jpg\" alt=\"This shows a brain, a mom and a baby.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2024\/09\/parent-cognition-baby-brain-neurosicence-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The team found that infant visual cognition was linked to two aspects of caregiver cognition\u2014their own visual cognition and behavioral regulation. Credit: Neuroscience News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About 90 families from East Midlands area who had infants between the ages of 6 and 10 months took part in the study in the Infant and Toddler Lab in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. During their visit, both caregivers and their infants participated in experimental tasks while the researchers measured their behavioral responses and\u00a0brain function\u00a0using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).<\/p>\n<p>In this technique, caregivers and infants wear caps with sensors that shine near-infrared light to measure brain function. Infants and caregivers were presented with colorful, changing shapes on a TV screen and researchers examined how they both looked at and switched their gaze between the shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Caregivers also completed an inhibitory control task (how they respond to some stimuli and inhibit their response to others) and questionnaires that assessed how they regulated their behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>The team found that infant visual cognition was linked to two aspects of caregiver cognition\u2014their own visual cognition and behavioral regulation. Specifically, infants\u2019 abilities to detect change was linked to their caregivers\u2019 abilities to also detect change and efficiently monitor and\/or inhibit their behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to behavioral links, the team also found a link between caregiver and infant brain function\u2014in regions in the\u00a0parietal cortex, an area important for attending to objects in space, working memory and attention.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar, Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology, led this research. She said, \u201cWe are excited about these findings. We know from later in development that there are links between caregiver cognition and child cognition. It is promising to see these associations in the first year of life both in behavior and brain function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the future, these findings could potentially be used to customize interventions based on caregiver behavioral preferences. We are also excited about the next stage of our work, which tackles whether these associations are linked to how caregivers and infants interact with one another during play time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the families commented, \u201cLearning that there is a link between my own and my baby\u2019s behavior and\u00a0brain development\u00a0is fascinating. We know that as they get older, they start to \u2018copy\u2019 our behaviors, but trying to examine how our brains could also be similarly wired\u2014blows my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About this cognition and neurodevelopment research news<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ffffe8\"><strong>Author: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sobana Wijeakumar<\/a><br \/><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Nottingham<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact: <\/strong>Sobana Wijeakumar \u2013 University of Nottingham<br \/><strong>Image: <\/strong>The image is credited to Neuroscience News<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ffffe8\"><strong>Original Research: <\/strong>Open access.<br \/>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0163638324000547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Association between caregiver and infant visual neurocognition<\/a>\u201d by Sobana Wijeakumar et al. <em>Infant Behavior and Development<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ffffe8\">Open access.<br \/>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/icd.2543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Caregiver executive functions are associated with infant visual working memory<\/a>\u201d by Sobana Wijeakumar et al. <em>Infant and Child Development<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"\/>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Association between caregiver and infant visual neurocognition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous work has shown that caregiver attention shapes visual cognition in infants through dyadic interactions. Is this association measurable when visual cognition is objectively measured in caregivers and infants using comparable experimental paradigms?<\/p>\n<p>In the current study, we presented infants (N\u00a0=\u00a086) and caregivers (N\u00a0=\u00a078) with age-specific variants of the same preferential looking visual cognition task to investigate whether caregiver visual cognition was associated with their infants\u2019 visual cognition. In each trial of the task, two side-by-side flashing displays of coloured shapes were presented.<\/p>\n<p>On the \u2018unchanging\u2019 side, the colours of the shapes remained the same. On the \u2018changing\u2019 side, the colour of one shape changed after each flash. Load was varied by changing the number of shapes across trials (low, medium, and high loads). We extracted looking dynamics using video recordings and brain function using functional near-infrared spectroscopy as both infants and caregivers engaged with the task.<\/p>\n<p>Change preference (CP) score, which represented the amount of time spent looking at the changing side divided by the total looking duration, showed a load-dependent modulation for both infants and caregivers. Both groups showed the highest CP scores at the low load.<\/p>\n<p>Further, higher caregiver CP scores was associated with higher infant CP scores at the low load. Both infants and caregivers engaged canonical regions of the fronto-parietal network involved in visual cognition.<\/p>\n<p>Critically, higher caregiver CP scores were associated with greater activation in the left\u00a0superior parietal lobule\u00a0in younger infants, a region involved in allocating visuo-spatial attention and working memory maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Further, there was spatial overlap between performance-dependent regions in the right\u00a0parietal cortex\u00a0in caregivers and younger infants.<\/p>\n<p>Our findings provide first evidence of a heritability-related visual neurocognitive association between caregivers and their children in the first year of life.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"\/>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caregiver executive functions are associated with infant visual working memory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caregiver executive functions (EFs) play an integral role in shaping cognitive development.<\/p>\n<p>Here, we investigated how caregiver EF abilities (86 caregivers;\u00a0<em>mean age<\/em>\u2009=\u200933.4\u2009years, SD\u2009=\u20094.5) was associated with visual working memory (VWM) in infants (86 infants females; mean age\u2009=\u2009250.6\u2009days, SD\u2009=\u200935.8).<\/p>\n<p>The BRIEF-A was used to assess caregiver EFs, and a preferential looking task along with fNIRS was used to assess VWM function in infants.<\/p>\n<p>Our findings revealed that better caregiver behavioral regulation was associated with better VWM performance, greater right-lateralized parietal activation, and left-lateralized frontal suppression, while better caregiver metacognition and emotional control was associated with greater right-lateralized temporal suppression in infants.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, these associations suggest that better caregiver EF abilities might shape visuo-spatial attention and memory, guide fixation on task-relevant goals, and suppress distractions in children from as early as the first year of life.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- Form created by Optin Forms plugin by WPKube: create beautiful optin forms with ease! --> <!-- https:\/\/wpkube.com\/ --><!--optinforms-form5-container--> <!-- \/ Optin Forms --> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/cognition-vision-brain-development-27701\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers have found that caregiver cognition is associated with infant visual cognition and brain function. 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