Physical proximity can help get couples on the same parenting page, suggests a new study. On exposure to child-related stimuli, parents’ prefrontal cortex activity is more synchronous when they are together than when they are apart.
So suggests a paper describing research that researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore led, which features in Scientific Reports. The paper finds that parenting together makes couples more attuned to each other’s parenting approach than they would be on their own. “Our study indicates that when spouses are physically together, there is greater synchrony in their attentional and cognitive control mechanisms when parenting,” explains senior author Gianluca Esposito, of NTU’s School of