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💡 Parent-Child Functional Neural Similarity and Its Association With Child Mental Well-Being
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This paper is based on my master thesis. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators, Roseriet Beijers, @francescopoli.bsky.social, Hellen Lustermans, @sabinehunnius.bsky.social and @cdeweerth.bsky.social, for their support and guidance throughout the journey!

We found a U-shaped relation between infants' attention levels and the quality of maternal caregiving: both very low and very high attention scores were associated with higher-quality caregiving, suggesting that mothers may adapt their behaviors to meet their infants' attentional needs.

We used eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling to assess several aspects of infant cognitive functioning, and behavioral observation to assess maternal caregiving quality. Then we tested the association between them.

Very grateful to the University of Zurich's Graduate Research Campus, Philosophical Faculty, and my incredible supervisor @noramraschle.bsky.social for their support 😊

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