{"id":73999,"date":"2017-11-29T21:22:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T05:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/eye-contact-with-your-baby-helps-synchronise-your-brainwaves"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:17","slug":"eye-contact-with-your-baby-helps-synchronise-your-brainwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/eye-contact-with-your-baby-helps-synchronise-your-brainwaves","title":{"rendered":"Eye contact with your baby helps synchronise your brainwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eye-contact-with-your-baby-helps-synchronise-your-brainwaves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making eye contact with an infant makes adults\u2019 and babies\u2019 brainwaves \u2018get in sync\u2019 with each other \u2013 which is likely to support communication and learning \u2013 according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>When a parent and infant interact, various aspects of their behaviour can synchronise, including their gaze, emotions and heartrate, but little is known about whether their <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain activity<\/a> also synchronises \u2013 and what the consequences of this might be.<\/p>\n<p>Brainwaves reflect the group-level activity of millions of neurons and are involved in information transfer between brain regions. Previous studies have shown that when two adults are talking to each other, communication is more successful if their brainwaves are in synchrony.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017-11-eye-contact-baby-synchronise-brainwaves.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017&#45;11-eye-contact-baby-...waves.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making eye contact with an infant makes adults\u2019 and babies\u2019 brainwaves \u2018get in sync\u2019 with each other \u2013 which is likely to support communication and learning \u2013 according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. When a parent and infant interact, various aspects of their behaviour can synchronise, including their gaze, emotions and heartrate, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74057,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73999\/revisions\/74057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}