Thanks to the whole team for the wonderful collaboration and thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding our work @univie.ac.at 🤗

We discuss the links between INS and socio-cognitive functions & outcomes, e.g., social learning, language, and attachment. We contend that INS fosters mutual predictability and co-regulation in caregiver-child interactions. Yet, longitudinal research is required to substantiate mechanistic claims.

We provide an overview of hyperscanning studies with infants & children and note that interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) emerges as early as four months of age. We discuss its prerequisites and formulate developmental hypotheses, e.g. that it may initially be constrained to low frequencies.

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