Interacting with our children from babies helps to improve the child's brain development, a new study shows

Experts have long known that proper interaction between parents and children helps children regulate their emotions. And this relationship is especially important in the early years, when the child's brain is more permeable and more open to the influence of the environment.

Now a joint project of the University of Turku (Finland) and the University of California-Irvine (USA) has investigated the impact of parental interaction on the development of a child through a new tool. The study, published in the magazine 'EBioMedicine', It supports the importance of having moments of peaceful and uninterrupted interaction with babies every day to improve their future brain development.

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New tool to measure the quality of the interaction

The study entitled 'Across the continents and demography, unpredictable maternal signals are associated with children's cognitive function', has used a completely new tool to study the predictability of parental interaction signals at a micro level called 'Estimation of the Behavioral Entropy Rate'.

The method is used to objectively calculate how predictable interaction patterns are formed from the unique interaction signals of a parent. Its development was based on animal studies that showed that The predictability of the interaction signals are related to the development of your children's brain.

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In addition, the research also showed that> "greater predictability of parental interaction signals in childhood is associated with the child's ability to better control and regulate their own actions and emotions." >>

"Intermittent interactions between parents and children were associated with more poor self-regulation in the child."

"The results were the same in the data of the Finnish university than in the American one, despite their socioeconomic and cultural differences", explains associate professor Riikka Korja of the University of Turku.

You have to interact with babies without stress

In view of the results, the study supports the idea that It is important to have moments of peaceful and uninterrupted interaction with babies every day.

In addition, the teacher adds:

"Parents of young children should receive all the support they need to reduce stress. The parents' self-regulation and their ability to adapt to the first months of their child's life are linked to their situation in life."

Explain what "The interaction between the father and the baby is threatened by harmful disruptions, such as the pressure of being connected to the Internet all the time and the stressors associated with an accelerated lifestyle."

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This study is part of the FinnBrain project of the University of Turku, which studies the combined influence of environmental and genetic factors in children's neurodevelopment.