Processing children's faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies.

Autor: Vuoriainen E; Human Information Processing Laboratory, Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland., Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ; Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Educational and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Huffmeijer R; Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands., van IJzendoorn MH; Research Department of Clinical, Education and Health Psychology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL, University of London, UK., Peltola MJ; Human Information Processing Laboratory, Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland; Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, Tampere University, Finland. Electronic address: mikko.peltola@tuni.fi.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews [Neurosci Biobehav Rev] 2022 May; Vol. 136, pp. 104604. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 10.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104604
Abstrakt: Event-related potentials (ERPs) are an excellent tool for investigating parental neural responses to child stimuli. Using meta-analysis, we quantified the results of available studies reporting N170 or LPP/P3 ERP responses to children's faces, targeting three questions: 1) Do parents and non-parents differ in ERP responses to child faces? 2) Are parental ERP responses larger to own vs. unfamiliar child faces? 3) Are parental ERP responses to child faces associated with indicators of parenting quality, such as observed parental sensitivity? Across 23 studies (N = 1035), key findings showed 1) larger N170 amplitudes to child faces in parents than in non-parents (r = 0.19), 2) larger LPP/P3 responses to own vs. unfamiliar child faces in parents (r = 0.19), and 3) positive associations between parental LPP/P3 responses to child faces and parenting quality outcomes (r = 0.15). These results encourage further research particularly with the LPP/P3 to assess attentional-motivational processes of parenting, but also highlight the need for larger samples and more systematic assessments of associations between ERPs and parenting.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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