Child Cognitive Development with the Maternal Heartbeat: A Mother-Fetus Neurocognitive Model and Architecture for Bioengineering Systems

The theoretical article aims to conceptualize the Mother-fetus Neurocognitive (MFNC) model. It reviews recent studies on shared intentionality to establish the first step in studying the MFNC model. This advanced Neurocognitive model describes evolving cognition from the pre-perceptual communication in the Mother-fetus ecological system due to nonlocal neuronal coupling. The study highlights the core principles of the MFNC model. This knowledge can enhance our understanding of the beginning of cognition and enable the development of various applications, including assessing cognition in preverbal children and developing noninvasive brain-computer interaction.