Project DetailsThe aim of our project was to examine whether it is possible to identify unique brain connectivity patterns between parents and their children using resting-state fMRI scans. Our work was based on the master's thesis of Nir Habouba, conducted in the lab of Dr. Tzipi Horowitz at the Faculty of Education. As part of the project deliverables, we were asked to develop a continuous “pipeline” that could be easily executed to produce results describing the nature of these connections for different groups of participants.
Nir’s thesis focused on identifying parent–child neural connections based on fMRI scans collected during a task—listening to stories. His work yielded promising evidence regarding the existence of such connections. This project can be viewed as an attempt to generalize his findings to a larger sample of participants, with the main difference being that in our case, the participants were not engaged in any task but were instead scanned in a resting state.
