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This is particularly relevant to help infants deal with challenging social situations, such as being excluded from a group of others (ostracism). The coupling of neural and behavioural responses to ostracism in infants and caregivers has never been investigated in infants and caregivers simultaneously, nor how early infants perceive ostracism and how caregivers couple their behavioural and neural signals with them. In the current preregistered hyperscanning study, we investigated the effect of ostracism on neural and behavioural responses, inter\u2010brain synchrony (\n                    <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 34) and behavioural synchrony in caregiver\u2010infant dyads (\n                    <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 41) using a ball\u2010game. 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