Using fNIRS hyperscanning to understand children’s collaborative interactions

titleUsing fNIRS hyperscanning to understand children’s collaborative interactions
start_date2025/06/09
schedule15h15
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location_infoRoom B10
summaryFrom the ages of three to six, children make rapid gains in their ability to plan and work with others towards a common goal. Understanding the development of collaboration in children requires measuring it in “real life” situations. In this talk, I will present several naturalistic fNIRS hyperscanning studies at Birkbeck’s Toddlerlab that aim to investigate the neural correlates of collaborative problem-solving in pre-schoolers. I will discuss optimisation of analytical pipelines for processing dual-brain signals with developmental populations, as well as upcoming plans to model interaction across both neural and behavioural levels using cross-brain general linear models. Finally, I will highlight lessons learned so far from ongoing data collection with child-child pairs of 3-or 5-year-old siblings, friends, and strangers.
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