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Eken A, Nassehi F, Eroğul O. Diagnostic machine learning applications on clinical populations using functional near infrared spectroscopy: a review. Rev Neurosci 2024; 35:421-449. [PMID: 38308531 DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2023-0117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
Abstract
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and its interaction with machine learning (ML) is a popular research topic for the diagnostic classification of clinical disorders due to the lack of robust and objective biomarkers. This review provides an overview of research on psychiatric diseases by using fNIRS and ML. Article search was carried out and 45 studies were evaluated by considering their sample sizes, used features, ML methodology, and reported accuracy. To our best knowledge, this is the first review that reports diagnostic ML applications using fNIRS. We found that there has been an increasing trend to perform ML applications on fNIRS-based biomarker research since 2010. The most studied populations are schizophrenia (n = 12), attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (n = 7), and autism spectrum disorder (n = 6) are the most studied populations. There is a significant negative correlation between sample size (>21) and accuracy values. Support vector machine (SVM) and deep learning (DL) approaches were the most popular classifier approaches (SVM = 20) (DL = 10). Eight of these studies recruited a number of participants more than 100 for classification. Concentration changes in oxy-hemoglobin (ΔHbO) based features were used more than concentration changes in deoxy-hemoglobin (ΔHb) based ones and the most popular ΔHbO-based features were mean ΔHbO (n = 11) and ΔHbO-based functional connections (n = 11). Using ML on fNIRS data might be a promising approach to reveal specific biomarkers for diagnostic classification.
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- Aykut Eken
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Sogutozu, 06510, Ankara, Türkiye
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Sogutozu, 06510, Ankara, Türkiye
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Sogutozu, 06510, Ankara, Türkiye
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Provost S, Fourdain S, Vannasing P, Tremblay J, Roger K, Caron-Desrochers L, Hüsser A, Paquette N, Doussau A, Poirier N, Simard MN, Gallagher A. Language brain responses and neurodevelopmental outcome in preschoolers with congenital heart disease: A fNIRS study. Neuropsychologia 2024; 196:108843. [PMID: 38423173 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Revised: 02/24/2024] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Neurodevelopmental disabilities affect up to 50% of survivors of congenital heart disease (CHD). Language difficulties are frequently identified during preschool period and can lead to academic, social, behavioral, and emotional difficulties. Structural brain alterations are associated with poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes in patients with CHD during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. However, evidence is lacking about the functional brain activity in children with CHD and its relationship with neurodevelopment. This study therefore aimed to characterize brain responses during a passive story-listening task in 3-year-old children with CHD, and to investigate the relationship between functional brain patterns of language processing and neurodevelopmental outcomes. To do so, we assessed hemodynamic concentration changes, using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), and neurodevelopmental outcomes, using the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - 4th Edition (WPPSI-IV), in children with CHD (n = 19) and healthy controls (n = 23). Compared to their healthy peers, children with CHD had significantly lower scores on the Verbal comprehension index (VCI), the Vocabulary acquisition index (VAI), the General ability index (GAI), and the Information and the Picture Naming subtests of the WPPSI-IV. During the passive story-listening task, healthy controls showed significant hemodynamic brain responses in the temporal and the temporal posterior regions, with stronger activation in the temporal posterior than in the temporal regions. In contrast, children with CHD showed reduced activation in the temporal posterior regions compared to controls, with no difference of activation between regions. Reduced brain responses in the temporal posterior regions were also correlated with lower neurodevelopmental outcomes in both groups. This is the first study that reveals reduced brain functional responses in preschoolers with CHD during a receptive language task. It also suggests that the temporal posterior activation could be a potential brain marker of cognitive development. These findings provide support for the feasibility of identifying brain correlates of neurodevelopmental vulnerabilities in children with CHD.
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- Sarah Provost
- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Clinique d'Investigation Neurocardiaque (CINC), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada; Clinique d'Investigation Neurocardiaque (CINC), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montréal, QC, Canada; Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada; School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Research Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montréal, QC, Canada.
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Ren Y, Cui G, Feng K, Zhang X, Yu C, Liu P. A scoping review of utilization of the verbal fluency task in Chinese and Japanese clinical settings with near-infrared spectroscopy. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1282546. [PMID: 38525251 PMCID: PMC10957746 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1282546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024] Open
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This review targets the application of the Verbal Fluency Task (VFT) in conjunction with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for diagnosing psychiatric disorders, specifically in the contexts of China and Japan. These two countries are at the forefront of integrating fNIRS with VFT in clinical psychiatry, often employing this combination as a complementary tool alongside traditional psychiatric examinations. Our study aims to synthesize research findings on the hemodynamic responses elicited by VFT task in clinical settings of the two countries, analyzing variations in task design (phonological versus semantic), stimulus modality (auditory versus visual), and the impact of language typology. The focus on China and Japan is crucial, as it provides insights into the unique applications and adaptations of VFT in these linguistically and culturally distinct environments. By exploring these specific cases, our review underscores the importance of tailoring VFT to fit the linguistic and cultural context, thereby enhancing its validity and utility in cross-cultural psychiatric assessments.
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- Yufei Ren
- Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yuquan Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yuquan Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yuquan Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Lai B, Yi A, Zhang F, Wang S, Xin J, Li S, Yu L. Atypical brain lateralization for speech processing at the sublexical level in autistic children revealed by fNIRS. Sci Rep 2024; 14:2776. [PMID: 38307983 PMCID: PMC10837203 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53128-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024] Open
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Autistic children often exhibit atypical brain lateralization of language processing, but it is unclear what aspects of language contribute to this phenomenon. This study employed functional near-infrared spectroscopy to measure hemispheric lateralization by estimating hemodynamic responses associated with processing linguistic and non-linguistic auditory stimuli. The study involved a group of autistic children (N = 20, mean age = 5.8 years) and a comparison group of nonautistic peers (N = 20, mean age = 6.5 years). The children were presented with stimuli with systematically decreasing linguistic relevance: naturalistic native speech, meaningless native speech with scrambled word order, nonnative speech, and music. The results revealed that both groups showed left lateralization in the temporal lobe when listening to naturalistic native speech. However, the distinction emerged between autism and nonautistic in terms of processing the linguistic hierarchy. Specifically, the nonautistic comparison group demonstrated a systematic reduction in left lateralization as linguistic relevance decreased. In contrast, the autism group displayed no such pattern and showed no lateralization when listening to scrambled native speech accompanied by enhanced response in the right hemisphere. These results provide evidence of atypical neural specialization for spoken language in preschool- and school-age autistic children and shed new light on the underlying linguistic correlates contributing to such atypicality at the sublexical level.
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- Baojun Lai
- Center for Autism Research, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
- Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China
- Tiyudong Road Primary School (Xingguo), Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Pediatrics; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major 0bstetric Diseases; Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology; Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Higher Education Laboratory of Maternal-Fetal Joint Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- VITO Health, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol, Belgium
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- Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China
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- Foshan Clinical Medical School, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Foshan, China
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- Foshan Clinical Medical School, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Foshan, China
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- Center for Autism Research, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
- Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China.
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Gemignani J, Gervain J. Brain responses to repetition-based rule-learning do not exhibit sex differences: an aggregated analysis of infant fNIRS studies. Sci Rep 2024; 14:2611. [PMID: 38297068 PMCID: PMC10831066 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53092-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/27/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
Abstract
Studies have repeatedly shown sex differences in some areas of language development, typically with an advantage for female over male children. However, the tested samples are typically small and the effects do not always replicate. Here, we used a meta-analytic approach to address this issue in a larger sample, combining seven fNIRS studies on the neural correlates of repetition- and non-repetition-based rule learning in newborns and 6-month-old infants. The ability to extract structural regularities from the speech input is fundamental for language development, it is therefore highly relevant to understand whether this ability shows sex differences. The meta-analysis tested the effect of Sex, as well as of other moderators on infants' hemodynamic responses to repetition-based (e.g. ABB: "mubaba") and non-repetition-based (e.g. ABC: "mubage") sequences in both anatomically and functionally defined regions of interests. Our analyses did not reveal any sex differences at birth or at 6 months, suggesting that the ability to encode these regularities is robust across sexes. Interestingly, the meta-analysis revealed other moderator effects. Thus in newborns, we found a greater involvement of the bilateral temporal areas compared to the frontal areas for both repetition and non-repetition sequences. Further, non-repetition sequences elicited greater responses in 6-month-olds than in newborns, especially in the bilateral frontal areas. When analyzing functional clusters of HbR timetraces, we found that a larger right-left asymmetry for newborn boys in brain responses compared to girls, which may be interpreted in terms of a larger right-left asymmetry in cerebral blood flow in boys than in girls early in life. We conclude that extracting repetition-based regularities from speech is a robust ability with a well-defined neural substrate present from birth and it does not exhibit sex differences.
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- Jessica Gemignani
- Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia 8, 35131, Padua, Italy.
- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
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- Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia 8, 35131, Padua, Italy
- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS &, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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Provost S, Fourdain S, Vannasing P, Tremblay J, Roger K, García-Puente Y, Doussau A, Vinay MC, Von Siebenthal Z, Paquette N, Poirier N, Gallagher A. Relationship between 4-month functional brain network topology and 24-month neurodevelopmental outcome in children with congenital heart disease. Eur J Paediatr Neurol 2023; 47:47-59. [PMID: 37729706 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpn.2023.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023]
Abstract
Survivors of complex forms of congenital heart disease (CHD)∗ are at high risk of neurodevelopmental disabilities. Neuroimaging studies have pointed to brain anomalies and immature networks in infants with CHD, yet less is known about their functional network topology and associations with neurodevelopment. To characterize the functional network topology in 4-month-old infants with repaired CHD, we compared graph theory metrics measured using resting-state functional near-infrared spectroscopy (rs-fNIRS) between infants with CHD (n = 22) and healthy controls (n = 30). We also investigated the moderating effect of graph theory metrics on the relationship between group (CHD vs. Controls) and developmental outcomes at 24 months. At 4 months, both groups presented similar functional brain network topology. At 24 months, children with CHD had lower scores on the language scale and the expressive communication subscale of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III), as well as lower scores on the Grammatical Form scale of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MBCDI). The relationship between group and expressive language was moderated by the normalized characteristic path length (λ) and the degree (k). Although infants with CHD have functional brain topology similar to that of healthy controls, our findings suggest that they do not benefit from an optimal functional brain organization in comparison with healthy infants.
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- Sarah Provost
- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Neurodevelopmental Optical Imaging Lab (LIONlab), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Neurodevelopmental Optical Imaging Lab (LIONlab), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Neurodevelopmental Optical Imaging Lab (LIONlab), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Neurodevelopmental Optical Imaging Lab (LIONlab), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Neurodevelopmental Optical Imaging Lab (LIONlab), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Clinique d'Investigation Neurocardiaque (CINC), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Clinique d'Investigation Neurocardiaque (CINC), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Neurodevelopmental Optical Imaging Lab (LIONlab), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Clinique d'Investigation Neurocardiaque (CINC), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Neurodevelopmental Optical Imaging Lab (LIONlab), Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Fourdain S, Provost S, Tremblay J, Vannasing P, Doussau A, Caron-Desrochers L, Gaudet I, Roger K, Hüsser A, Dehaes M, Martinez-Montes E, Poirier N, Gallagher A. Functional brain connectivity after corrective cardiac surgery for critical congenital heart disease: a preliminary near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) report. Child Neuropsychol 2023; 29:1088-1108. [PMID: 36718095 DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2023.2170340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) requiring cardiac surgery in infancy are at high risk for neurodevelopmental impairments. Neonatal imaging studies have reported disruptions of brain functional organization before surgery. Yet, the extent to which functional network alterations are present after cardiac repair remains unexplored. This preliminary study aimed at investigating cortical functional connectivity in 4-month-old infants with repaired CHD, using resting-state functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). After fNIRS signal frequency decomposition, we compared values of magnitude-squared coherence as a measure of connectivity strength, between 21 infants with corrected CHD and 31 healthy controls. We identified a subset of connections with differences between groups at an uncorrected statistical level of p < .05 while controlling for sex and maternal socioeconomic status, with most of these connections showing reduced connectivity in infants with CHD. Although none of these differences reach statistical significance after FDR correction, likely due to the small sample size, moderate to large effect sizes were found for group-differences. If replicated, these results would therefore suggest preliminary evidence that alterations of brain functional connectivity are present in the months after cardiac surgery. Additional studies involving larger sample size are needed to replicate our data, and comparisons between pre- and postoperative findings would allow to further delineate alterations of functional brain connectivity in this population.
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- Solène Fourdain
- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Clinique d'investigation neurocardiaque (CINC), Sainte-Justine, Montreal University Hospital Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Radiology, Radio-oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Clinique d'investigation neurocardiaque (CINC), Sainte-Justine, Montreal University Hospital Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
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de la Cruz-Pavía I, Gervain J. Six-month-old infants' perception of structural regularities in speech. Cognition 2023; 238:105526. [PMID: 37379798 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Revised: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
Abstract
In order to acquire grammar, infants need to extract regularities from the linguistic input. From birth, infants can detect regularities in speech based on identity relations, and show strong neural activation to syllable sequences containing adjacent repetitions of identical syllables (e.g. ABB: mubaba). Meanwhile, newborns' neural responses to sequences of different syllables (e.g. ABC: mubage, i.e. diversity-based relations) do not differ from baseline. However, this latter ability needs to emerge during development, as most linguistic units, such as words, are composed of highly variable sequences. As infants begin to learn their first word forms at 6 months, we hypothesize that the ability to represent sequences of different syllables might become important for them at this age. Using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), we measured 6-month-old infants' brain responses to repetition- and diversity-based sequences in the bilateral temporal, parietal and frontal areas. We found that 6-month-olds discriminated the repetition- and diversity-based structures in frontal and parietal regions, and exhibited equally strong activation to both grammars as compared to baseline. These results show that by 6 months of age, infants encode sequences with diversity-based structures. They thus provide the earliest evidence that prelexical infants represent difference in speech stimuli, which behavioral studies first attest at 11 months of age.
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- Irene de la Cruz-Pavía
- Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain; Basque Foundation for Science Ikerbasque, Bilbao, Spain; Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
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- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Cité, Paris, France; Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Scaffei E, Mazziotti R, Conti E, Costanzo V, Calderoni S, Stoccoro A, Carmassi C, Tancredi R, Baroncelli L, Battini R. A Potential Biomarker of Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Pilot fNIRS Study in Female Preschoolers. Brain Sci 2023; 13:951. [PMID: 37371429 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13060951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) refers to a neurodevelopmental condition whose detection still remains challenging in young females due to the heterogeneity of the behavioral phenotype and the capacity of camouflage. The availability of quantitative biomarkers to assess brain function may support in the assessment of ASD. Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a non-invasive and flexible tool that quantifies cortical hemodynamic responses (HDR) that can be easily employed to describe brain activity. Since the study of the visual phenotype is a paradigmatic model to evaluate cerebral processing in many neurodevelopmental conditions, we hypothesized that visually-evoked HDR (vHDR) might represent a potential biomarker in ASD females. We performed a case-control study comparing vHDR in a cohort of high-functioning preschooler females with ASD (fASD) and sex/age matched peers. We demonstrated the feasibility of visual fNIRS measurements in fASD, and the possibility to discriminate between fASD and typical subjects using different signal features, such as the amplitude and lateralization of vHDR. Moreover, the level of response lateralization was correlated to the severity of autistic traits. These results corroborate the cruciality of sensory symptoms in ASD, paving the way for the validation of the fNIRS analytical tool for diagnosis and treatment outcome monitoring in the ASD population.
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- Elena Scaffei
- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health NEUROFARBA, University of Florence, 50135 Florence, Italy
- IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Viale del Tirreno, 56128 Pisa, Italy
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- IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Viale del Tirreno, 56128 Pisa, Italy
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Viale del Tirreno, 56128 Pisa, Italy
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- IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Viale del Tirreno, 56128 Pisa, Italy
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- IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Viale del Tirreno, 56128 Pisa, Italy
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Translational Research and of New Surgical and Medical Technologies, University of Pisa, 56100 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Viale del Tirreno, 56128 Pisa, Italy
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Katus L, Blasi A, McCann S, Mason L, Mbye E, Touray E, Ceesay M, de Haan M, Moore SE, Elwell CE, Lloyd-Fox S, Team TBS. Longitudinal fNIRS and EEG metrics of habituation and novelty detection are correlated in 1-18-month-old infants. Neuroimage 2023; 274:120153. [PMID: 37146782 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Revised: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/01/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION . Habituation and novelty detection are two fundamental and widely studied neurocognitive processes. Whilst neural responses to repetitive and novel sensory input have been well-documented across a range of neuroimaging modalities, it is not yet fully understood how well these different modalities are able to describe consistent neural response patterns. This is particularly true for infants and young children, as different assessment modalities might show differential sensitivity to underlying neural processes across age. Thus far, many neurodevelopmental studies are limited in either sample size, longitudinal scope or breadth of measures employed, impeding investigations of how well common developmental trends can be captured via different methods. METHOD . This study assessed habituation and novelty detection in N = 204 infants using EEG and fNIRS measured in two separate paradigms, but within the same study visit, at 1, 5 and 18 months of age in an infant cohort in rural Gambia. EEG was acquired during an auditory oddball paradigm during which infants were presented with Frequent, Infrequent and Trial Unique sounds. In the fNIRS paradigm, infants were familiarised to a sentence of infant-directed speech, novelty detection was assessed via a change in speaker. Indices for habituation and novelty detection were extracted for both EEG and NIRS RESULTS: . We found evidence for weak to medium positive correlations between responses on the fNIRS and the EEG paradigms for indices of both habituation and novelty detection at most age points. Habituation indices correlated across modalities at 1 month and 5 months but not 18 months of age, and novelty responses were significantly correlated at 5 months and 18 months, but not at 1 month. Infants who showed robust habituation responses also showed robust novelty responses across both assessment modalities. DISCUSSION . This study is the first to examine concurrent correlations across two neuroimaging modalities across several longitudinal age points. Examining habituation and novelty detection, we show that despite the use of two different testing modalities, stimuli and timescale, it is possible to extract common neural metrics across a wide age range in infants. We suggest that these positive correlations might be strongest at times of greatest developmental change.
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- Laura Katus
- School of Human Sciences, University of Greenwich; Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London
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- Department of Women and Children's Health, Kings College London
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- Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, King's College London
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- MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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- MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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- MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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- Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London; Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London
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- Department of Women and Children's Health, Kings College London; MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London
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- The BRIGHT Study team are (in alphabetical order): Lena Acolatse, Chiara Bulgarelli, Maria-Magdalena Crespo Llado, Momodou K. Darboe, Saikou Drammeh, Tijan Fadera, Giulia Ghillia, Buba Jobarteh, Marta Perapoch Amado, Andrew M. Prentice, Maria Rozhko, Mariama Saidykhan
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Yan D, Hao S, Lu Q. The Influence of Extrovert-Introvert Personality on Children's Cortical Activation with Attention Training Systems. Neurosci Lett 2023; 808:137260. [PMID: 37075884 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2023]
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Extrovert-Introvert personality can take an active role in affecting people's attitudes, tastes, and behaviors in education. However, little research has been conducted to study whether and how Extrovert-Introvert personality may influence children's interaction with the attention training system. In this manuscript, we present the results of a user study that not only measured the influence of children's Extrovert-Introvert personality on their perception of two typical types of attention training systems (i.e., computer-based and neurofeedback-based) but also employed functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to investigate how the personality may influence cortical activation in children. Our results show that, for extroverted children, the neurofeedback-based attention training system elicited significantly more activation in the prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex, and was more likely to be preferred. The findings could be useful for developing more effective attention training systems based on user personality.
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- Dongning Yan
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, China.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, China.
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- Design Department, Politecnico Di Milano, Milan, 20133, Italy.
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Martinez-Alvarez A, Gervain J, Koulaguina E, Pons F, de Diego-Balaguer R. Prosodic cues enhance infants' sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eade4083. [PMID: 37043570 PMCID: PMC10096573 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade4083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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In language, grammatical dependencies often hold between items that are not immediately adjacent to each other. Acquiring these nonadjacent dependencies is crucial for learning grammar. However, there are potentially infinitely many dependencies in the language input. How does the infant brain solve this computational learning problem? Here, we demonstrate that while rudimentary sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities may be present relatively early, robust and reliable learning can only be achieved when convergent statistical and perceptual, specifically prosodic cues, are both present, helping the infant brain detect the building blocks that form a nonadjacent dependency. This study contributes to our understanding of the neural foundations of rule learning that pave the way for language acquisition.
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- Anna Martinez-Alvarez
- Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, Université Paris Cité and CNRS, Paris, France
- Department of Cognition, Development, and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, Université Paris Cité and CNRS, Paris, France
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- Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CNRS ERL 9003, INSERM U992, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin Center, Gif-sur-Yvette, Île-de-France, France
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- Department of Cognition, Development, and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Cognition, Development, and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
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Gemignani J, de la Cruz-Pavía I, Martinez A, Nallet C, Pasquini A, Lucarini G, Cavicchiolo F, Gervain J. Reproducibility of infant fNIRS studies: a meta-analytic approach. NEUROPHOTONICS 2023; 10:023518. [PMID: 36908681 PMCID: PMC9997722 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.10.2.023518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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SIGNIFICANCE Concerns about the reproducibility of experimental findings have recently emerged in many disciplines, from psychology to medicine and neuroscience. As NIRS is a relatively recent brain imaging technique, the question of reproducibility has not yet been systematically addressed. AIM The current study seeks to test the replicability of effects observed in NIRS experiments assessing young infants' rule-learning ability. APPROACH We conducted meta-analyses and mixed-effects modeling-based inferential statistics to determine whether effect sizes were replicable and comparable in a sample of 23 NIRS studies investigating infants' abilities to process repetition- and diversity-based regularities in linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory and visual sequences. Additionally, we tested whether effect sizes were modulated by different factors such as the age of participants or the laboratory. We obtained NIRS data from 12 published and 11 unpublished studies. The 23 studies involved a total of 487 infants, aged between 0 and 9 months, tested in four different countries (Canada, France, Italy, and USA). RESULTS Our most important finding is that study and laboratory were never significant moderators of variation in effect sizes, indicating that results replicated reliably across the different studies and labs included in the sample. We observed small-to-moderate effect sizes, similar to effect sizes found with other neuroimaging and behavioral techniques in the developmental literature. In line with existing findings, effect sizes were modulated by the participants' age and differed across the different regularities tested, with repetition-based regularities giving rise to the strongest effects; in particular, the overall magnitude of this effect in the left temporal region was 0.27 when analyzing the entire dataset. CONCLUSIONS Meta-analysis is a useful tool for assessing replicability and cross-study variability. Here, we have shown that infant NIRS studies in the language domain replicate robustly across various NIRS machines, testing sites, and developmental populations.
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- Jessica Gemignani
- University of Padua, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Padua, Italy
- University of Padua, Padova Neuroscience Center, Padua, Italy
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- University of the Basque Country, Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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- University of Padua, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Padua, Italy
- University of Padua, Padova Neuroscience Center, Padua, Italy
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- University of Padua, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Padua, Italy
- University of Padua, Padova Neuroscience Center, Padua, Italy
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- University of Padua, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Padua, Italy
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- University of Padua, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Padua, Italy
- University of Padua, Padova Neuroscience Center, Padua, Italy
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- University of Padua, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Padua, Italy
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- University of Padua, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Padua, Italy
- University of Padua, Padova Neuroscience Center, Padua, Italy
- Université Paris Cité & CNRS, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, Paris, France
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Gervain J, Minagawa Y, Emberson L, Lloyd-Fox S. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy to study the early developing brain: future directions and new challenges. NEUROPHOTONICS 2023; 10:023519. [PMID: 37020727 PMCID: PMC10068680 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.10.2.023519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Significance Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a frequently used neuroimaging tool to explore the developing brain, particularly in infancy, with studies spanning from birth to toddlerhood (0 to 2 years). We provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities that the developmental fNIRS field faces, after almost 25 years of research. Aim We discuss the most recent advances in fNIRS brain imaging with infants and outlines the trends and perspectives that will likely influence progress in the field in the near future. Approach We discuss recent progress and future challenges in various areas and applications of developmental fNIRS from methodological and technological innovations to data processing and statistical approaches. Results and Conclusions The major trends identified include uses of fNIRS "in the wild," such as global health contexts, home and community testing, and hyperscanning; advances in hardware, such as wearable technology; assessment of individual variation and developmental trajectories particularly while embedded in studies examining other environmental, health, and context specific factors and longitudinal designs; statistical advances including resting-state network and connectivity, machine learning and reproducibility, and collaborative studies. Standardization and larger studies have been, and will likely continue to be, a major goal in the field, and new data analysis techniques, statistical methods, and collaborative cross-site projects are emerging.
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- Judit Gervain
- University of Padua, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Padua, Italy
- University of Padua, Padova Neuroscience Center, Padua, Italy
- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, Paris, France
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- Keio University, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Yokohama, Japan
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- University of Cambridge, Department of Psychology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Shukla D, Konar S, Devi BI, Padmasri G, Jayanna R, Suresh M, Lakshita B. Performance of a new portable near-infrared spectroscopy device for detection of traumatic intracranial hematoma. Injury 2023; 54:1278-1286. [PMID: 36934009 DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2023.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2022] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/20/2023]
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INTRODUCTION We report results of a newly developed portable near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) based point-of-care device CEREBO® to detect traumatic intracranial hematoma (TICH). MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with alleged history of head injury visiting emergency room were enrolled. They were examined consecutively for the presence of TICH using CEREBO® and computed tomography (CT) scans. RESULTS A total of 158 participants and 944 lobes were scanned, and 18% of lobes were found to have TICH on imaging with computed tomography of the head. 33.9% of the lobes could not be scanned due to scalp lacerations. The mean depth of hematoma was 0.8 (SD 0.5) cm and the mean volume of the hematoma was 7.8 (11.3) cc. The overall sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of CEREBO® to classify subjects as hemorrhagic or non-hemorrhagic were 96% (CI 90 - 99%), 85% (CI 73 - 93%), 92% (CI 86 - 96%), 91% (CI 84 - 96%) and 93% (CI 82 - 98%) whereas to classify the lobes as hemorrhagic and non-hemorrhagic, the sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, PPV and NPV were 93% (CI 88 - 96%), 90% (CI 87 - 92%), 90% (CI 88 - 92%), 66% (CI 61 - 73%), and 98% (CI 97 - 99%) respectively. The sensitivity was highest at 100% (CI 92 - 100%) for the detection of extradural and subdural hematoma. The sensitivity for detecting intracranial hematoma including epidural, subdural, intracerebral and subarachnoid hematomas, of more than 2 cc was 97% (CI 93 - 99%) and the NPV was 100% (CI 99 - 100%). The sensitivity dropped for hematomas less than 2cc in volume to 84% (CI 71 - 92%) and the NPV was 99% (CI 98 - 99%). The sensitivity to detect bilateral hematomas was 94% (CI 74 - 99%). CONCLUSION The performance of currently tested NIRS device for detection of TICH was good and can be considered for triaging a patient requiring a CT scan of the head after injury. The NIRS device can efficiently detect traumatic unilateral hematomas as well as those bilateral hematomas where the volumetric difference is greater than 2cc.
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- Dhaval Shukla
- Department of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
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- Department of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India; NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroradiology and Interventional Radiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
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- Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India
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- Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India
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Baek S, Marques S, Casey K, Testerman M, McGill F, Emberson L. Attrition rate in infant fNIRS research: A meta-analysis. INFANCY 2023; 28:507-531. [PMID: 36748788 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Understanding the trends and predictors of attrition rate, or the proportion of collected data that is excluded from the final analyses, is important for accurate research planning, assessing data integrity, and ensuring generalizability. In this pre-registered meta-analysis, we reviewed 182 publications in infant (0-24 months) functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) research published from 1998 to April 9, 2020, and investigated the trends and predictors of attrition. The average attrition rate was 34.23% among 272 experiments across all 182 publications. Among a subset of 136 experiments that reported the specific reasons for subject exclusion, 21.50% of the attrition was infant-driven, while 14.21% was signal-driven. Subject characteristics (e.g., age) and study design (e.g., fNIRS cap configuration, block/trial design, and stimulus type) predicted the total and subject-driven attrition rates, suggesting that modifying the recruitment pool or the study design can meaningfully reduce the attrition rate in infant fNIRS research. Based on the findings, we established guidelines for reporting the attrition rate for scientific transparency and made recommendations to minimize the attrition rates. This research can facilitate developmental cognitive neuroscientists in their quest toward increasingly rigorous and representative research.
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- Sori Baek
- Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.,Psychology Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.,Psychology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Arredondo MM. Shining a light on cultural neuroscience: Recommendations on the use of fNIRS to study how sociocultural contexts shape the brain. CULTURAL DIVERSITY & ETHNIC MINORITY PSYCHOLOGY 2023; 29:106-117. [PMID: 34291971 PMCID: PMC8782924 DOI: 10.1037/cdp0000469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a portable neuroimaging technique that may serve as a methodological tool for studying how sociocultural contexts can shape the human brain and impact cognition and behavior. The use of fNIRS in community-based research may (a) advance theoretical knowledge in psychology and neuroscience, particularly regarding underrepresented ethnic-racial communities; (b) increase diversity in samples; and (c) provide neurobiological evidence of sociocultural factors supporting human development. The review aims to introduce the use of fNIRS, including its practicalities and limitations, to new adopters inquiring how sociocultural inputs affect the brain. The review begins with an introduction to cultural neuroscience, and a review on the use of fNIRS follows. Next, benefits and guidelines to the design of fNIRS research in naturalistic environments (in the community or in the field) using a cultural lens are discussed. Strengths-based and community-based approaches in cultural neuroscience are recommended throughout. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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Guérin SMR, Vincent MA, Delevoye-Turrell YN. Effects of motor pacing on frontal-hemodynamic responses during continuous upper-limb and whole-body movements. Psychophysiology 2022; 60:e14226. [PMID: 36567446 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Revised: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 10/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Advances in timing research advocate for the existence of two timing mechanisms (automatic vs. controlled) that are related to the level of cognitive control intervening for motor behavior regulation. In the present study, we used the functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) cutting-edge technique to examine the hypothesis that prefrontal inhibitory control is needed to perform slow motor activities. Participants were asked to perform a sensorimotor-synchronization task at various paces (i.e., slow, close-to-spontaneous, fast). We contrasted upper-limb circle drawing to a more naturalistic behavior that required whole-body movements (i.e., steady-state walking). Results indicated that whole-body movements led to greater brain oxygenation over the motor regions when compared with upper-limb activities. The effect of motor pace was found in the walking task only, with more bilateral orbitofrontal and left dorsolateral activation at slow versus fast pace. Exploratory analyses revealed a positive correlation between the activation of the orbitofrontal and motor areas for the close-to-spontaneous pace in both tasks. Overall, results support the key role of prefrontal cognitive control in the production of slow whole-body movements. In addition, our findings confirm that upper-limb (laboratory-based) tasks might not be representative of those engaged during everyday-life motor behaviors. The fNIRS technique may be a valuable tool to decipher the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying naturalistic, adaptive motor behaviors.
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- Ségolène M R Guérin
- Université de, UMR 9193 - SCALab - Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, France
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- Université de, UMR 9193 - SCALab - Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, France
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Alexopoulos J, Giordano V, Doering S, Seidl R, Benavides-Varela S, Russwurm M, Greenwood S, Berger A, Bartha-Doering L. Sex differences in neural processing of speech in neonates. Cortex 2022; 157:117-128. [PMID: 36279755 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The large majority of studies shows that girls develop their language skills faster than boys in the first few years of life. Are girls born with this advantage in language development? The present study used fNIRS in neonates to investigate sex differences in neural processing of speech within the first days of life. We found that speech stimuli elicited significantly more brain activity than non-speech stimuli in both groups of male and female neonates. However, whereas girls showed significant HbO changes to speech stimuli only within the left hemisphere, boys exhibited simultaneous neural activations in both hemispheres, with a larger and more significant fronto-temporal cluster in the right hemisphere. Furthermore, in boys, the variation in time-to-peak latencies was considerably greater than in girls. These findings suggest an earlier maturation of language-related brain areas in girls and highlight the importance of sex-specific investigations of neural language networks in infants.
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- Johanna Alexopoulos
- Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization & Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Prefrontal Cerebral Oxygenated Hemoglobin Concentration during the Category Fluency and Finger-Tapping Tasks in Adults with and without Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12121636. [PMID: 36552096 PMCID: PMC9775273 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12121636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2022] [Revised: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered to be the limit between the cognitive changes of aging and early dementia; thus, discriminating between participants with and without MCI is important. In the present study, we aimed to examine the differences in the cerebral oxyhemoglobin signal between individuals with and without MCI. The cerebral oxyhemoglobin signal was measured when the participants (young and elderly controls as well as patients with MCI) performed category fluency, finger tapping, and dual tasks using head-mounted near-infrared spectroscopy; the results were compared between the groups. The cerebral oxyhemoglobin signal trended toward the highest values during the category fluency task in young participants and during the finger-tapping task in elderly participants regardless of the MCI status. The area under the curve was approximately 0.5, indicating a low discrimination ability between elderly participants with and without MCI. The measurement of the blood flow in the prefrontal cortex may not accurately quantify cognitive and motor performance to detect MCI. Finger tapping may increase cerebral blood flow in individuals with and without MCI during the task.
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Filippetti ML, Andreu-Perez J, de Klerk C, Richmond C, Rigato S. Are advanced methods necessary to improve infant fNIRS data analysis? An assessment of baseline-corrected averaging, general linear model (GLM) and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) based approaches. Neuroimage 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Jing J, Qi M, Gao H. A functional near-infrared spectroscopy investigation of item-method directed forgetting. Neurosci Res 2022; 185:11-19. [PMID: 36084700 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2022.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 08/12/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Whether directed forgetting is passive or active remains debated. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), blood-oxygen level-dependent responses of intentional forgetting were investigated in the item-method directed forgetting (DF) paradigm. During the study phase, each word was followed by a random remembering or forgetting cue indicating whether the word is to be remembered (TBR) or to be forgotten (TBF). A recognition test was used in the test phase and four cue-response conditions were obtained: remembering/forgetting cues associated with the subsequently remembered (TBR-r/TBF-r) or forgotten (TBR-f/TBF-f) words. Data from 16 healthy adult participants showed a DF effect. The fNIRS data revealed that, during the 5-9 s time window, the oxygenate hemoglobin (oxy-Hb) levels were higher during intentional forgetting compared to intentional remembering in the left inferior frontal (TBF-f vs. TBR-f) and right superior frontal gyrus (TBF-r vs. TBR-r), indicating more frontal inhibition involved during intentional forgetting. During the 9-11 s time window, the oxy-Hb level in the frontal and parietal gyrus was higher for forgetting than remembering cues, indicating that the TBF words might be automatically encoded. In sum, the TBF words might receive inhibition control triggered by forgetting cues and then be automatically encoded with the increase of the post-cue interval.
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- Jingyan Jing
- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China
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- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China.
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- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China.
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Wang S, Tzeng OJL, Aslin RN. Predictive brain signals mediate association between shared reading and expressive vocabulary in infants. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0272438. [PMID: 35921370 PMCID: PMC9348734 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The ability to predict upcoming information is crucial for efficient language processing and enables more rapid language learning. The present study explored how shared reading experience influenced predictive brain signals and expressive vocabulary of 12-month-old infants. The predictive brain signals were measured by fNIRS responses in the occipital lobe with an unexpected visual-omission task. The amount of shared reading experience was correlated with the strength of this predictive brain signal and with infants’ expressive vocabulary. Importantly, the predictive brain signal explained unique variance of expressive vocabulary beyond shared reading experience and maternal education. A further mediation analysis showed that the effect of shared reading experience on expressive vocabulary was explained by the infants’ predictive brain signal. This is the first evidence indicating that richer shared reading experience strengthens predictive signals in the infant brain and in turn facilitates expressive vocabulary acquisition.
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- Shinmin Wang
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- * E-mail: (SW); (RNA)
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- Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Linguistic Institute, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Department of Psychology and Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America
- * E-mail: (SW); (RNA)
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Liu Y, Sánchez Hernández F, Ting F, Hyde DC. Comparing fixed-array and functionally-defined channel of interest approaches to infant functional near-infrared spectroscopy data. Neuroimage 2022; 261:119520. [PMID: 35901918 PMCID: PMC9480621 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Revised: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 07/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is increasingly used to study brain function in infants, but the development and standardization of analysis techniques for use with infant fNIRS data have not paced other technical advances. Here we quantify and compare the effects of different methods of analysis of infant fNIRS data on two independent fNIRS datasets involving 6–9-month-old infants and a third simulated infant fNIRS dataset. With each, we contrast results from a traditional, fixed-array analysis with several functional channel of interest (fCOI) analysis approaches. In addition, we tested the effects of varying the number and anatomical location of potential data channels to be included in the fCOI definition. Over three studies we find that fCOI approaches are more sensitive than fixed-array analyses, especially when channels of interests were defined within-subjects. Applying anatomical restriction and/or including multiple channels in the fCOI definition does not decrease and in some cases increases sensitivity of fCOI methods. Based on these results, we recommend that researchers consider employing fCOI approaches to the analysis of infant fNIRS data and provide some guidelines for choosing between particular fCOI approaches and settings for the study of infant brain function and development.
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- Yiyu Liu
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brain and Cognitive Development Lab, Department of Psychology, Urbana-Champaign, United States
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brain and Cognitive Development Lab, Department of Psychology, Urbana-Champaign, United States
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- Boston University, Child Cognition Lab, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston, United States
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brain and Cognitive Development Lab, Department of Psychology, Urbana-Champaign, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Neuroscience Program, Urbana-Champaign, United States.
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Fu X, Richards JE. Age-related changes in diffuse optical tomography sensitivity profiles from childhood to adulthood. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2022; 27:083004. [PMID: 35810323 PMCID: PMC9270691 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.27.8.083004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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SIGNIFICANCE Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) uses near-infrared light spectroscopy to measure changes in cerebral hemoglobin concentration. Anatomical interpretations of the brain location that generates the hemodynamic signal require accurate descriptions of the DOT sensitivity to the underlying cortex. DOT sensitivity profiles are different in infants compared with adults. However, the descriptions of DOT sensitivity profiles from early childhood to adulthood are lacking despite the continuous head and brain development. AIM We aim to investigate age-related differences in DOT sensitivity profiles in individuals aged from 2 to 34 years with narrow age ranges of 0.5 or 1 year. APPROACH We implemented existing photon migration simulation methods and computed source-detector channel DOT sensitivity using age-appropriate, realistic head models. RESULTS DOT sensitivity profiles change systematically as a function of source-detector separation distance for all age groups. Children displayed distinctive DOT sensitivity profiles compared to older individuals, and the differences were enhanced at larger separation distances. CONCLUSIONS The findings have important implications for the design of source-detector placement and image reconstruction. Age-appropriate realistic head models should be used to provide anatomical guidance for standalone DOT data. Using age-inappropriate head models will have more negative impacts on estimation accuracy in younger children.
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- Xiaoxue Fu
- University of South Carolina, Department of Psychology, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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- University of South Carolina, Department of Psychology, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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Kominsky JF, Lucca K, Thomas AJ, Frank MC, Hamlin JK. Simplicity and validity in infant research. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Stibbs-Eaton L, Hodgson C, Kolade A, Crowell J, Gemignani J, Hope H, Pierce M, Elmadih A, Zhao C, Downey D, Elliott R, Abel KM. Vocal brain development in infants of mothers with serious mental illness (CAPRI-Voc): study protocol. BMJ Open 2022; 12:e053598. [PMID: 35301204 PMCID: PMC8932262 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Improving the lives of children and adolescents with parental mental illness (CAPRI) remains an urgent political and public health concern for the UK and European Union. Recurrent parental mental illness is believed to lead to fractures in the family, academic and social lives of these children, yet interventions are poorly targeted and non-specific. Part of an interdisciplinary programme of work (the CAPRI Programme; grant number: 682741), CAPRI-Voc aims to achieve two goals: first, to test the feasibility of our longitudinal imaging paradigm in mother-infant pairs where the mother has a diagnosis of severe mental illness. Second, to compare development of vocal processing in these infants with infants in the general population. METHODS AND ANALYSIS Recruitment of 100 infants of mothers with mental illness, alongside 50 infants of healthy mothers. Both cohorts of infants will undergo functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) brain imaging at three time points: 9, 12 and 18 months to explore differences between cohorts in their neural responses to vocal stimuli in our language paradigm. Mothers will complete an interview and psychological questionnaires. We shall also complete an infant developmental battery and mother-child interaction play session. Data on recruitment, retention and dropout will be recorded. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION It will be made clear that fNIRS is a safe, non-invasive technology widely used in infant clinical and psychological research. We shall reassure mothers that no definitive causal link exists between maternal mental illness and language development in infants, and that individual data will only exist as part of the wider dataset. As the study includes both children and vulnerable adults, all research staff will complete National Health Service (NHS) Safeguarding level 3 training. Dissemination will be via direct feedback to stakeholders, patient and advisory groups, and through presentations at conferences, journal publications and university/NHS trust communications. The study was approved through North West-Greater Manchester West Research Ethics Committee (17/NW/0074) and Health Research Authority (212715).
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- Lucy Stibbs-Eaton
- Psychology and Mental Health, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
- Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Psychology and Mental Health, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
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- Psychology and Mental Health, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
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- Psychology and Mental Health, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
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- Psychology and Mental Health, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
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- Psychology and Mental Health, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
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- Psychology and Mental Health, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
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- Psychology and Mental Health, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
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- Division of Dentistry, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
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- Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
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- Centre for Women's Mental Health, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK
- Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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Conti E, Scaffei E, Bosetti C, Marchi V, Costanzo V, Dell’Oste V, Mazziotti R, Dell’Osso L, Carmassi C, Muratori F, Baroncelli L, Calderoni S, Battini R. Looking for “fNIRS Signature” in Autism Spectrum: A Systematic Review Starting From Preschoolers. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:785993. [PMID: 35341016 PMCID: PMC8948464 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.785993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Accumulating evidence suggests that functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) can provide an essential bridge between our current understanding of neural circuit organization and cortical activity in the developing brain. Indeed, fNIRS allows studying brain functions through the measurement of neurovascular coupling that links neural activity to subsequent changes in cerebral blood flow and hemoglobin oxygenation levels. While the literature offers a multitude of fNIRS applications to typical development, only recently this tool has been extended to the study of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The exponential rise of scientific publications on this topic during the last years reflects the interest to identify a “fNIRS signature” as a biomarker of high translational value to support both early clinical diagnosis and treatment outcome. The purpose of this systematic review is to describe the updating clinical applications of fNIRS in NDDs, with a specific focus on preschool population. Starting from this rationale, a systematic search was conducted for relevant studies in different scientific databases (Pubmed, Scopus, and Web of Science) resulting in 13 published articles. In these studies, fNIRS was applied in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or infants at high risk of developing ASD. Both functional connectivity in resting-state conditions and task-evoked brain activation using multiple experimental paradigms were used in the selected investigations, suggesting that fNIRS might be considered a promising method for identifying early quantitative biomarkers in the autism field.
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- Eugenia Conti
- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health NEUROFARBA, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- *Correspondence: Elena Scaffei,
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Arredondo MM, Aslin RN, Werker JF. Bilingualism alters infants' cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms. Dev Sci 2022; 25:e13172. [PMID: 34418259 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A bilingual environment is associated with changes in the brain's structure and function. Some suggest that bilingualism also improves higher-cognitive functions in infants as young as 6-months, yet whether this effect is associated with changes in the infant brain remains unknown. In the present study, we measured brain activity using functional near-infrared spectroscopy in monolingual- and bilingual-raised 6- and 10-month-old infants. Infants completed an orienting attention task, in which a cue was presented prior to an object appearing on the same (Valid) or opposite (Invalid) side of a display. Task performance did not differ between the groups but neural activity did. At 6-months, both groups showed greater activity for Valid (> Invalid) trials in frontal regions (left hemisphere for bilinguals, right hemisphere for monolinguals). At 10-months, bilinguals showed greater activity for Invalid (> Valid) trials in bilateral frontal regions, while monolinguals showed greater brain activity for Valid (> Invalid) trials in left frontal regions. Bilinguals' brain activity trended with their parents' reporting of dual-language mixing when speaking to their child. These findings are the first to indicate how early (dual) language experience can alter the cortical organization underlying broader, non-linguistic cognitive functions during the first year of life.
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- Maria M Arredondo
- The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
- Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- The University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
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- Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- The University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
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Norton ES, Manning BL, Harriott EM, Nikolaeva JI, Nyabingi OS, Fredian KM, Page JM, McWeeny S, Krogh-Jespersen S, MacNeill LA, Roberts MY, Wakschlag LS. Social EEG: A novel neurodevelopmental approach to studying brain-behavior links and brain-to-brain synchrony during naturalistic toddler-parent interactions. Dev Psychobiol 2022; 64:e22240. [PMID: 35312062 PMCID: PMC9867891 DOI: 10.1002/dev.22240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Despite increasing emphasis on emergent brain-behavior patterns supporting language, cognitive, and socioemotional development in toddlerhood, methodologic challenges impede their characterization. Toddlers are notoriously difficult to engage in brain research, leaving a developmental window in which neural processes are understudied. Further, electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potential paradigms at this age typically employ structured, experimental tasks that rarely reflect formative naturalistic interactions with caregivers. Here, we introduce and provide proof of concept for a new "Social EEG" paradigm, in which parent-toddler dyads interact naturally during EEG recording. Parents and toddlers sit at a table together and engage in different activities, such as book sharing or watching a movie. EEG is time locked to the video recording of their interaction. Offline, behavioral data are microcoded with mutually exclusive engagement state codes. From 216 sessions to date with 2- and 3-year-old toddlers and their parents, 72% of dyads successfully completed the full Social EEG paradigm, suggesting that it is possible to collect dual EEG from parents and toddlers during naturalistic interactions. In addition to providing naturalistic information about child neural development within the caregiving context, this paradigm holds promise for examination of emerging constructs such as brain-to-brain synchrony in parents and children.
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- Elizabeth S. Norton
- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Department of Medical Social Sciences and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Department of Medical Social Sciences and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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The amplitude of fNIRS hemodynamic response in the visual cortex unmasks autistic traits in typically developing children. Transl Psychiatry 2022; 12:53. [PMID: 35136021 PMCID: PMC8826368 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-022-01820-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Revised: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Autistic traits represent a continuum dimension across the population, with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) being the extreme end of the distribution. Accumulating evidence shows that neuroanatomical and neurofunctional profiles described in relatives of ASD individuals reflect an intermediate neurobiological pattern between the clinical population and healthy controls. This suggests that quantitative measures detecting autistic traits in the general population represent potential candidates for the development of biomarkers identifying early pathophysiological processes associated with ASD. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has been extensively employed to investigate neural development and function. In contrast, the potential of fNIRS to define reliable biomarkers of brain activity has been barely explored. Features of non-invasiveness, portability, ease of administration, and low-operating costs make fNIRS a suitable instrument to assess brain function for differential diagnosis, follow-up, analysis of treatment outcomes, and personalized medicine in several neurological conditions. Here, we introduce a novel standardized procedure with high entertaining value to measure hemodynamic responses (HDR) in the occipital cortex of adult subjects and children. We found that the variability of evoked HDR correlates with the autistic traits of children, assessed by the Autism-Spectrum Quotient. Interestingly, HDR amplitude was especially linked to social and communication features, representing the core symptoms of ASD. These findings establish a quick and easy strategy for measuring visually-evoked cortical activity with fNIRS that optimize the compliance of young subjects, setting the background for testing the diagnostic value of fNIRS visual measurements in the ASD clinical population.
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Tewari VV, Kumar A, Kurup A, Daryani H, Saxena A. Impact of Cerebral Oxygen Saturation Monitoring on Short-term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Neonates with Encephalopathy - A Prospective Cohort Study. Curr Pediatr Rev 2022; 18:301-317. [PMID: 35249496 DOI: 10.2174/1573396318666220304210653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 12/12/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been used for monitoring cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO2) in neonates. There is a lack of data from low-middle income countries (LMIC) setting of cerebral rSO2 in neonates with encephalopathy of diverse etiologies. This study aimed to monitor cerebral rSO2 using NIRS in encephalopathic neonates to maintain the rSO2 between 55 to 85 % in the first 72 hours of admission to improve short-term neurodevelopmental outcomes (NDO). MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective cohort study enrolled encephalopathic neonates with hypoxic- ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and non-HIE etiologies into 8 clinical categories. The cerebral rSO2 was monitored and targeted to be between 55 to 85 %, with predefined actions and management alterations over 72 hours. The neurodevelopmental assessment was conducted at 3, 6, and 9-12 months corrected age. Moreover, the motor and mental developmental quotients (MoDQ) (MeDQ) were recorded and compared to historical control. RESULTS A total of 120 neonates were enrolled and assessed for NDO. The MoDQ (mean ± SD) was 92.55 ± 14.85, 93.80 ± 13.20, 91.02 ± 12.69 and MeDQ (mean ± SD) was 91.80 ± 12.98, 91.80 ± 13.69, 88.41 ± 11.60 at 3, 6 and 9-12 months. The MoDQ and MeDQ scores of the historic cohort at 12 months were 86.35 ± 20.34 and 86.58 ± 18.27. The mean difference [MD (95 %CI)] for MoDQ was - 4.670 (- 8.48 to - 0.85) (p=0.0165) and for MeDQ was - 1.83 (- 5.26 to 1.6) (p=0.29). There was a negative correlation between the composite developmental quotient (CoDQ) with mean rSO2 and a positive correlation with cerebral fractional tissue oxygen extraction (CFTOE). Neonates with HIE and neonatal encephalopathy (NE) (n=37/120) had the lowest motor and mental DQ on neurodevelopmental assessment. Clinical categories, neonatal meningitis (NM), and intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) improved in DQ scores over the study period. CONCLUSION Monitoring and maintaining cerebral rSO2 between 55-85 % through appropriate management changes improved neurodevelopmental scores at the 12-month follow-up in neonates with encephalopathy caused by varied etiologies.
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- Vishal Vishnu Tewari
- Department of Pediatrics, Command Hospital and Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Command Hospital, Lucknow, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India
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Giordano V, Alexopoulos J, Spagna A, Benavides-Varela S, Peganc K, Kothgassner OD, Klebermass-Schrehof K, Olischar M, Berger A, Bartha-Doering L. Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: An fNIRS study. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2021; 223:105039. [PMID: 34678622 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Humans are biologically endowed with the faculty of language. However, the way neonates can crack this complex communicative code is yet not totally understood. While phonetic discrimination has been widely investigated in neonates, less is known about the role of supra-segments patterns in the recognition of native language. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate accent discrimination abilities in newborns in a sentential prosody paradigm. We used near-infared spectroscopy to investigate accent discrimination in 21 full-term born infants within the first days of life. Sentential prosody was used to investigate: (a) native accent, (b) foreign accent, and (c) flattened accent. Neonates revealed a significantly smaller hemodynamic response to native accent compared to flattened accent and foreign accent, respectively. Cluster-based permutation analysis revealed two clusters with a significant difference between the two conditions native accent and foreign accent. The first cluster covered the middle and superior frontal, middle and superior temporal, central, and parietal areas within the left hemisphere. The second cluster, located in the right hemisphere, covered inferior, middle, and superior frontal, central, middle and superior temporal areas. We therefore conclude that neonates can differentiate prosodic features like accents within the same language a few days after birth.
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- Vito Giordano
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Columbia University, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization & Department of Neurscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Department for Cognitive Science, University of Ljubliana, Faculty of Education, Ljubliana, Slovenia
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Gemignani J, Gervain J. A practical guide for synthetic fNIRS data generation. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021; 2021:828-831. [PMID: 34891418 DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9631014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The use of a large and diversified ground-truth synthetic fNIRS dataset enables researchers to objectively validate and compare data analysis procedures. In this work, we describe each step of the synthetic data generation workflow and we provide tools to generate the dataset.
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Berent I, de la Cruz-Pavía I, Brentari D, Gervain J. Infants differentially extract rules from language. Sci Rep 2021; 11:20001. [PMID: 34625613 PMCID: PMC8501030 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99539-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Infants readily extract linguistic rules from speech. Here, we ask whether this advantage extends to linguistic stimuli that do not rely on the spoken modality. To address this question, we first examine whether infants can differentially learn rules from linguistic signs. We show that, despite having no previous experience with a sign language, six-month-old infants can extract the reduplicative rule (AA) from dynamic linguistic signs, and the neural response to reduplicative linguistic signs differs from reduplicative visual controls, matched for the dynamic spatiotemporal properties of signs. We next demonstrate that the brain response for reduplicative signs is similar to the response to reduplicative speech stimuli. Rule learning, then, apparently depends on the linguistic status of the stimulus, not its sensory modality. These results suggest that infants are language-ready. They possess a powerful rule system that is differentially engaged by all linguistic stimuli, speech or sign.
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- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, Université de Paris & CNRS, Paris, France.,University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.,Basque Foundation for Science Ikerbasque, Bilbao, Spain
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- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, Université de Paris & CNRS, Paris, France.,University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Jiang D, Liu Z, Sun G. The Effect of Yoga Meditation Practice on Young Adults' Inhibitory Control: An fNIRS Study. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:725233. [PMID: 34588968 PMCID: PMC8475714 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.725233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Objectives: The present study aimed to test the effect of yoga meditation (YoMed) practice on inhibitory control of young adults. Methods: A total of 50 participants (23 male, 21–28 years old) from a university in Jinan, Shandong Province were enrolled in this study. Participants were randomly assigned to a YoMed group or a Control group. Participants’ basic information, physical activity, and inhibitory control were measured. A multi-channel continuous-wave near-infrared spectrometer was used to monitor the brain’s hemodynamic responses. Results: After the intervention, we found significant differences in Flanker tasks between the YoMed group and Control group. The accuracy in the YoMed group was higher than those in the Control group (p < 0.05). Analysis of fNIRS data showed that oxyhemoglobin (oxy-Hb) levels in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) increased in the YoMed group during the Flanker tasks after the YoMed intervention. Conclusion: YoMed has a temporarily promoting effect on the brain activation of young adults. It is an effective and appropriate exercise to improve the inhibitory control of young adults.
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- Dongdong Jiang
- School of Physical Education, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- School of Physical Education, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- School of Physical Education, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Fu X, Richards JE. devfOLD: a toolbox for designing age-specific fNIRS channel placement. NEUROPHOTONICS 2021; 8:045003. [PMID: 34881349 PMCID: PMC8647945 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.8.4.045003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Significance: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a noninvasive technique that uses scalp-placed sensors to measure cerebral hemoglobin concentration. Commercial NIRS instruments do not allow for whole-head coverage and do not intrinsically indicate which brain areas generate the NIRS signal. Hence, the challenge is to design source-detector channel arrangement that maximizes sensitivity to a given brain region of interest (ROI). Existing methods for optimizing channel placement design have been developed using adult head models. Thus, they have limited utility for developmental research. Aim: We aim to build an application from an existing toolbox (fOLD) that guides NIRS channel configuration based on age group, stereotaxic atlas, and ROI (devfOLD). Approach: The devfOLD provides NIRS channel-to-ROI specificity computed using photon propagation simulation with realistic head models from infant, child, and adult age groups. Results: Cortical locations and user-specified specificity cut-off values influence the between-age consistency and differences in the ROI-to-channel correspondence among the example infant and adult age groups. Conclusions: The study highlights the importance of incorporating age-specific head models for optimizing NIRS channel configurations. The devfOLD toolbox is publicly shared and compatible with multiple operating systems.
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- Xiaoxue Fu
- University of South Carolina, Department of Psychology, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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- University of South Carolina, Department of Psychology, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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Andreu-Perez J, Emberson LL, Kiani M, Filippetti ML, Hagras H, Rigato S. Explainable artificial intelligence based analysis for interpreting infant fNIRS data in developmental cognitive neuroscience. Commun Biol 2021; 4:1077. [PMID: 34526648 PMCID: PMC8443619 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02534-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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In the last decades, non-invasive and portable neuroimaging techniques, such as functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), have allowed researchers to study the mechanisms underlying the functional cognitive development of the human brain, thus furthering the potential of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN). However, the traditional paradigms used for the analysis of infant fNIRS data are still quite limited. Here, we introduce a multivariate pattern analysis for fNIRS data, xMVPA, that is powered by eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). The proposed approach is exemplified in a study that investigates visual and auditory processing in six-month-old infants. xMVPA not only identified patterns of cortical interactions, which confirmed the existent literature; in the form of conceptual linguistic representations, it also provided evidence for brain networks engaged in the processing of visual and auditory stimuli that were previously overlooked by other methods, while demonstrating similar statistical performance.
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- Javier Andreu-Perez
- grid.8356.80000 0001 0942 6946Centre for Computational Intelligence, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- grid.16750.350000 0001 2097 5006Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
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- grid.8356.80000 0001 0942 6946Centre for Computational Intelligence, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- grid.8356.80000 0001 0942 6946Centre for Brain Science, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- grid.8356.80000 0001 0942 6946Centre for Computational Intelligence, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- grid.8356.80000 0001 0942 6946Centre for Brain Science, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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Westgarth MMP, Hogan CA, Neumann DL, Shum DHK. A systematic review of studies that used NIRS to measure neural activation during emotion processing in healthy individuals. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2021; 16:345-369. [PMID: 33528022 PMCID: PMC7990068 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsab017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2020] [Revised: 01/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Functional neuroimaging provides an avenue for earlier diagnosis and tailored treatment of psychological disorders characterised by emotional impairment. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) offers ecological advantages compared to other neuroimaging techniques and suitability of measuring regions involved in emotion functions. A systematic review was conducted to evaluate the capacity of NIRS to detect activation during emotion processing and to provide recommendations for future research. Following a comprehensive literature search, we reviewed 85 journal articles, which compared activation during emotional experience, regulation or perception with either a neutral condition or baseline period among healthy participants. The quantitative synthesis of outcomes was limited to thematical analysis, owing to the lack of standardisation between studies. Although most studies found increased prefrontal activity during emotional experience and regulation, the findings were more inconsistent for emotion perception. Some researchers reported increased activity during the task, some reported decreases, some no significant changes, and some reported mixed findings depending on the valence and region. We propose that variations in the cognitive task and stimuli, recruited sample, and measurement and analysis of data are the primary causes of inconsistency. Recommendations to improve consistency in future research by carefully considering the choice of population, cognitive task and analysis approach are provided.
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- Matthew M P Westgarth
- School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, 4122, Australia
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- School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, 4122, Australia
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- School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, 4122, Australia
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon City District, 100077, Hong Kong
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Fu X, Richards JE. Investigating developmental changes in scalp-to-cortex correspondence using diffuse optical tomography sensitivity in infancy. NEUROPHOTONICS 2021; 8:035003. [PMID: 34322572 PMCID: PMC8305752 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.8.3.035003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Significance: Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) uses near-infrared light spectroscopy (NIRS) to measure changes in cerebral hemoglobin concentration. Anatomical interpretations of NIRS data require accurate descriptions of the cranio-cerebral relations and DOT sensitivity to the underlying cortical structures. Such information is limited for pediatric populations because they undergo rapid head and brain development. Aim: We aim to investigate age-related differences in scalp-to-cortex distance and mapping between scalp locations and cortical regions of interest (ROIs) among infants (2 weeks to 24 months with narrow age bins), children (4 and 12 years), and adults (20 to 24 years). Approach: We used spatial scalp projection and photon propagation simulation methods with age-matched realistic head models based on MRIs. Results: There were age-group differences in the scalp-to-cortex distances in infancy. The developmental increase was magnified in children and adults. There were systematic age-related differences in the probabilistic mappings between scalp locations and cortical ROIs. Conclusions: Our findings have important implications in the design of sensor placement and making anatomical interpretations in NIRS and fNIRS research. Age-appropriate, realistic head models should be used to provide anatomical guidance for standalone DOT data in infants.
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- Xiaoxue Fu
- University of South Carolina, Department of Psychology, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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- University of South Carolina, Department of Psychology, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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Hassan HW, Grasso V, Korostynska O, Khan H, Jose J, Mirtaheri P. An overview of assessment tools for determination of biological Magnesium implant degradation. Med Eng Phys 2021; 93:49-58. [PMID: 34154775 DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2021.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Medical implants made of biodegradable materials are advantageous for short-term applications as fracture fixation and mechanical support during bone healing. After completing the healing process, the implant biodegrades without any long-term side effects nor any need for surgical removal. In particular, Magnesium (Mg) implants, while degrading, can cause physiological changes in the tissues surrounding the implant. The evaluation of structural remodeling is relevant, however, the functional assessment is crucial to provide information about physiological changes in tissues, which can be applied as an early marker during the healing process. Hence, non-invasive monitoring of structural and functional changes in the surrounding tissue during the healing process is essential, and the need for new assessing methods is emerging. This paper provides an assessment of Mg based implants, and an extensive review of the literature is presented with the focus on the imaging techniques for investigation of the Mg implants' biodegradation. The potential of a hybrid analysis, including Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and photoacoustic imaging (PAI) technology, is further discussed. A hybrid solution may play a significant role in monitoring implants and have several advantages for monitoring tissue oxygenation in addition to tissue's acidity, which is directly connected to the Mg implants degradation process. Such a hybrid assessment system can be a simple, ambulant, and less costly technology with the potential for clinically monitoring of Mg implants at site.
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- Hafiz Wajahat Hassan
- Oslo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Department of Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical Engineering, Oslo, Norway
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- Oslo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Department of Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical Engineering, Oslo, Norway
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- Oslo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Department of Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical Engineering, Oslo, Norway
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- FUJIFILM VisualSonics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Oslo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Department of Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical Engineering, Oslo, Norway.
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Gómez DM, Holtheuer C, Miller K, Schmitt C. Children's and adults' eye movements and the extraction of number information from ambiguous and unambiguous markings. Cognition 2021; 213:104700. [PMID: 34140142 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2020] [Revised: 03/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Children learn to extract number information from utterances using a variety of language-specific cues, but in some languages this information is encoded in features that display high variability in their realization. How does this affect their acquisition process? In this paper, we present an eye tracking study comparing 3.5- to 7.5-year-old children and adults' use of number information on the verb and the determiner of the subject noun phrase in Chilean Spanish, a dialect of Spanish with variable realization of plural morphology in the noun phrase (due to phonological weakening) and categorical realization of number on the verb. Our results suggest that, while adults can determine whether the subject refers to a plurality or a singleton set based on the morphology of the verb alone, even 5- to 7.5-year-old children do not and, instead, require information from the noun phrase determiner to make a decision. Children younger than 5 years, instead, cannot use number information on the verb and on the determiner to make a decision. This supports Miller and Schmitt's (2010, 2012) hypothesis that number morphology is not always mapped into syntactic and semantic features by younger children in varieties of Spanish where number is subject to variation.
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- David M Gómez
- Institute of Education Sciences (ICEd), Universidad de O'Higgins, Rancagua, Chile.
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- Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Center for Language Science, Penn State University, PA, USA
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- Department of Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State University, MI, USA
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Fu X, Richards JE. Age-related changes in diffuse optical tomography sensitivity profiles in infancy. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0252036. [PMID: 34101747 PMCID: PMC8186805 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/08/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Diffuse optical tomography uses near-infrared light spectroscopy to measure changes in cerebral hemoglobin concentration. Anatomical interpretations of the location that generates the hemodynamic signal requires accurate descriptions of diffuse optical tomography sensitivity to the underlying cortical structures. Such information is limited for pediatric populations because they undergo rapid head and brain development. The present study used photon propagation simulation methods to examine diffuse optical tomography sensitivity profiles in realistic head models among infants ranging from 2 weeks to 24 months with narrow age bins, children (4 and 12 years) and adults (20 to 24 years). The sensitivity profiles changed systematically with the source-detector separation distance. The peak of the sensitivity function in the head was largest at the smallest separation distance and decreased as separation distance increased. The fluence value dissipated more quickly with sampling depth at the shorter source-detector separations than the longer separation distances. There were age-related differences in the shape and variance of sensitivity profiles across a wide range of source-detector separation distances. Our findings have important implications in the design of sensor placement and diffuse optical tomography image reconstruction in (functional) near-infrared light spectroscopy research. Age-appropriate realistic head models should be used to provide anatomical guidance for standalone near-infrared light spectroscopy data in infants.
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- Xiaoxue Fu
- Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States of America
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Bertachini ALL, Januario GC, Novi SL, Mesquita RC, Silva MAR, Andrade GMQ, de Resende LM, de Miranda DM. Hearing brain evaluated using near-infrared spectroscopy in congenital toxoplasmosis. Sci Rep 2021; 11:10135. [PMID: 33980948 PMCID: PMC8115034 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-89481-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) is a known cause of hearing loss directly caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Hearing loss might result from sensory, neural, or sensorineural lesions. Early treated infants rarely develop hearing loss, but retinochoroidal lesions, intracranial calcifications and hydrocephalus are common. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the brain evoked hemodynamic responses of CT and healthy infants during four auditory stimuli: mother infant directed speech, researcher infant directed speech, mother reading and researcher recorded. Children underwent Transitionally Evoked Otoacoustic Emission Auditory Testing and Automated Brainstem Auditory Response tests with normal auditory results, but with a tendency for greater latencies in the CT group compared to the control group. We assessed brain hemodynamics with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements from 61 infants, and we present fNIRS results as frequency maps of activation and deactivation for each stimulus. By evaluating infants in the three first months of life, we observed an individual heterogeneous brain activation pattern in response to all auditory stimuli for both groups. Each channel was activated or deactivated in less than 30% of children for all stimuli. There is a need of prospective studies to evaluate if the neurologic or auditory changes course with compromise of children outcomes.
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- Ana Lívia Libardi Bertachini
- Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.,NUPAD - Center for Newborn Screening and Genetic Diagnostics, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.,NUPAD - Center for Newborn Screening and Genetic Diagnostics, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- "Gleb Wataghin'' Institute of Physics, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.,NUPAD - Center for Newborn Screening and Genetic Diagnostics, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Speech and Hearing Therapy, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.,NUPAD - Center for Newborn Screening and Genetic Diagnostics, UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. .,Centro de Tecnologia Em Medicina Molecular, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Prof. Alfredo Balena 190, Santa Efigênia, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30130-100, Brazil.
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Combined real-time fMRI and real time fNIRS brain computer interface (BCI): Training of volitional wrist extension after stroke, a case series pilot study. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250431. [PMID: 33956845 PMCID: PMC8101762 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Objective Pilot testing of real time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) and real time functional near infrared spectroscopy (rt-fNIRS) as brain computer interface (BCI) neural feedback systems combined with motor learning for motor recovery in chronic severely impaired stroke survivors. Approach We enrolled a four-case series and administered three sequential rt-fMRI and ten rt-fNIRS neural feedback sessions interleaved with motor learning sessions. Measures were: Arm Motor Assessment Tool, functional domain (AMAT-F; 13 complex functional tasks), Fugl-Meyer arm coordination scale (FM); active wrist extension range of motion (ROM); volume of activation (fMRI); and fNIRS HbO concentration. Performance during neural feedback was assessed, in part, using percent successful brain modulations during rt-fNIRS. Main results Pre-/post-treatment mean clinically significant improvement in AMAT-F (.49 ± 0.22) and FM (10.0 ± 3.3); active wrist ROM improvement ranged from 20° to 50°. Baseline to follow-up change in brain signal was as follows: fMRI volume of activation was reduced in almost all ROIs for three subjects, and for one subject there was an increase or no change; fNIRS HbO was within normal range, except for one subject who increased beyond normal at post-treatment. During rt-fNIRS neural feedback training, there was successful brain signal modulation (42%–78%). Significance Severely impaired stroke survivors successfully engaged in spatially focused BCI systems, rt-fMRI and rt-fNIRS, to clinically significantly improve motor function. At the least, equivalency in motor recovery was demonstrated with prior long-duration motor learning studies (without neural feedback), indicating that no loss of motor improvement resulted from substituting neural feedback sessions for motor learning sessions. Given that the current neural feedback protocol did not prevent the motor improvements observed in other long duration studies, even in the presence of fewer sessions of motor learning in the current work, the results support further study of neural feedback and its potential for recovery of motor function in stroke survivors. In future work, expanding the sophistication of either or both rt-fMRI and rt-fNIRS could hold the potential for further reducing the number of hours of training needed and/or the degree of recovery. ClinicalTrials.gov ID:NCT02856035.
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Alexopoulos J, Giordano V, Janda C, Benavides-Varela S, Seidl R, Doering S, Berger A, Bartha-Doering L. The duration of intrauterine development influences discrimination of speech prosody in infants. Dev Sci 2021; 24:e13110. [PMID: 33817911 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Revised: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Auditory speech discrimination is essential for normal language development. Children born preterm are at greater risk of language developmental delays. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy at term-equivalent age, the present study investigated early discrimination of speech prosody in 62 neonates born between week 23 and 41 of gestational age (GA). We found a significant positive correlation between GA at birth and neural discrimination of forward versus backward speech at term-equivalent age. Cluster analysis identified a critical threshold at around week 32 of GA, pointing out the existence of subgroups. Infants born before week 32 of GA exhibited a significantly different pattern of hemodynamic response to speech stimuli compared to infants born at or after week 32 of GA. Thus, children born before the GA of 32 weeks are especially vulnerable to early speech discrimination deficits. To support their early language development, we therefore suggest a close follow-up and additional speech and language therapy especially in the group of children born before week 32 of GA.
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- Johanna Alexopoulos
- Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Camacho MC, Williams EM, Ding K, Perlman SB. Multimodal examination of emotion processing systems associated with negative affectivity across early childhood. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2021; 48:100917. [PMID: 33493849 PMCID: PMC7823207 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 12/19/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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High Temperamental Negative Affectivity in early childhood has been found to predict later emotion dysregulation. While much work has been conducted to separately probe bio-behavioral systems associated with Negative Affectivity, very little work has examined the relations among multiple systems across age. In this study, we use multi-modal methods to index neurobiological systems associated with Negative Affectivity in 53 4-7-year-old children. Prefrontal activation during emotion regulation was measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy over the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) while children played a game designed to elicit frustration in Social (Happy and Angry faces) and Nonsocial contexts. Gaze behaviors while free-viewing Happy and Angry faces were also measured. Finally, Negative Affectivity was indexed using a score composite based on factor analysis of parent-reported temperament. Using mixed-effects linear models, we found an age-dependent association between Negative Affectivity and both PFC activation during frustration and fixation duration on the mouth area of Happy faces, such that older children high in Negative Affectivity spent less time looking at the mouths of Happy faces and had lower PFC activation in response to frustration (ps<0.034). These results provide further insight to how Negative Affectivity may be associated with changes in affective neurobiological systems across early childhood.
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- M Catalina Camacho
- Division of Biology and Biomedical Science (Neurosciences), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Key Laboratory of Child Development & Learning Science, Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Division of Biology and Biomedical Science (Neurosciences), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Rao A, Gourkanti B, Van Helmond N. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Monitoring in Pediatric Anesthesiology: A Pro-Con Discussion. Cureus 2021; 13:e13875. [PMID: 33868839 PMCID: PMC8043135 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.13875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been increasingly used as a non-invasive measurement of cerebral tissue oxygen saturation. The aim of this short review is to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of its use in the pediatric anesthesia population. In the context of cardiac surgery, lower intraoperative NIRS values have shown a modest association with neurodevelopmental outcomes while lower neonatal intensive care unit NIRS values have been correlated with reduced neurodevelopment in children. However, it is still unclear if management aimed at increasing cerebral tissue oxygenation would have any benefit on these outcomes. Without prospective research looking into the effects of intervention given proper thresholds, the true benefit of NIRS use is still up for debate. Even with current research gaps, its use in the clinical setting continues.
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- Anusha Rao
- Anesthesiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
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Gemignani J, Gervain J. Comparing different pre-processing routines for infant fNIRS data. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2021; 48:100943. [PMID: 33735718 PMCID: PMC7985709 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Five pre-processing pipelines were compared on synthetic and real infant NIRS data. Strict inclusion criteria limit the number of trials, but recover HRF accurately. Artifact correction retains larger amounts of data, but may lower HRF amplitude. No difference between applying pre-processing to optical density or concentration data.
Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an important neuroimaging technique in cognitive developmental neuroscience. Nevertheless, there is no general consensus yet about best pre-processing practices. This issue is highly relevant, especially since the development and variability of the infant hemodynamic response (HRF) is not fully known. Systematic comparisons between analysis methods are thus necessary. We investigated the performance of five different pipelines, selected on the basis of a systematic search of the infant NIRS literature, in two experiments. In Experiment 1, we used synthetic data to compare the recovered HRFs with the true HRF and to assess the robustness of each method against increasing levels of noise. In Experiment 2, we analyzed experimental data from a published study, which assessed the neural correlates of artificial grammar processing in newborns. We found that with motion artifact correction (as opposed to rejection) a larger number of trials were retained, but HRF amplitude was often strongly reduced. By contrast, artifact rejection resulted in a high exclusion rate but preserved adequately the characteristics of the HRF. We also found that the performance of all pipelines declined as the noise increased, but significantly less so than if no pre-processing was applied. Finally, we found no difference between running the pre-processing on optical density or concentration change data. These results suggest that pre-processing should thus be optimized as a function of the specific quality issues a give dataset exhibits.
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- Jessica Gemignani
- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & University of Paris, Paris, France.
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- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & University of Paris, Paris, France
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