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Su WC, Colacot R, Ahmed N, Nguyen T, George T, Gandjbakhche A. The use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy in tracking neurodevelopmental trajectories in infants and children with or without developmental disorders: a systematic review. Front Psychiatry 2023; 14:1210000. [PMID: 37779610 PMCID: PMC10536152 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1210000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Understanding the neurodevelopmental trajectories of infants and children is essential for the early identification of neurodevelopmental disorders, elucidating the neural mechanisms underlying the disorders, and predicting developmental outcomes. Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an infant-friendly neuroimaging tool that enables the monitoring of cerebral hemodynamic responses from the neonatal period. Due to its advantages, fNIRS is a promising tool for studying neurodevelopmental trajectories. Although many researchers have used fNIRS to study neural development in infants/children and have reported important findings, there is a lack of synthesized evidence for using fNIRS to track neurodevelopmental trajectories in infants and children. The current systematic review summarized 84 original fNIRS studies and showed a general trend of age-related increase in network integration and segregation, interhemispheric connectivity, leftward asymmetry, and differences in phase oscillation during resting-state. Moreover, typically developing infants and children showed a developmental trend of more localized and differentiated activation when processing visual, auditory, and tactile information, suggesting more mature and specialized sensory networks. Later in life, children switched from recruiting bilateral auditory to a left-lateralized language circuit when processing social auditory and language information and showed increased prefrontal activation during executive functioning tasks. The developmental trajectories are different in children with developmental disorders, with infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder showing initial overconnectivity followed by underconnectivity during resting-state; and children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders showing lower prefrontal cortex activation during executive functioning tasks compared to their typically developing peers throughout childhood. The current systematic review supports the use of fNIRS in tracking the neurodevelopmental trajectories in children. More longitudinal studies are needed to validate the neurodevelopmental trajectories and explore the use of these neurobiomarkers for the early identification of developmental disorders and in tracking the effects of interventions.
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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Dopierala AAW, Emberson LL. Towards imaging the infant brain at play. Commun Integr Biol 2023; 16:2206204. [PMID: 37179594 PMCID: PMC10173788 DOI: 10.1080/19420889.2023.2206204] [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: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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Infants' first-person experiences are crucial to early cognitive and neural development. To a vast extent, these early experiences involve play, which in infancy takes the form of object exploration. While at the behavioral level infant play has been studied both using specific tasks and in naturalistic scenarios, the neural correlates of object exploration have largely been studied in highly controlled task settings. These neuroimaging studies did not tap into the complexities of everyday play and what makes object exploration so important for development. Here, we review selected infant neuroimaging studies, spanning from typical, highly controlled screen-based studies on object perception to more naturalistic designs and argue for the importance of studying the neural correlates of key behaviors such as object exploration and language comprehension in naturalistic settings. We suggest that the advances in technology and analytic approaches allow measuring the infant brain at play with the use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Naturalistic fNIRS studies offer a new and exciting avenue to studying infant neurocognitive development in a way that will draw us away from our laboratory constructs and into an infant's everyday experiences that support their development.
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- Baby Learning Lab, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Williams R, Trentini C. Two modes of being together: The levels of intersubjectivity and human relatedness in neuroscience and psychoanalytic thinking. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:981366. [PMID: 36158615 PMCID: PMC9494563 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.981366] [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: 06/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The notion of intersubjectivity has achieved a primary status in contemporary psychoanalytic debate, stimulating new theoretical proposals as well as controversies. This paper presents an overview of the main contributions on inter-subjectivity in the field of neurosciences. In humans as well as-probably-in other species, the ability for emotional resonance is guaranteed early in development. Based on this capacity, a primary sense of connectedness is established that can be defined inter-subjective in that it entails sharing affective states and intentions with caregivers. We propose to define such a form of inter-subjectivity as contingent, since the infant's early abilities for resonance do not imply the more generalized capacity to permanently conceive of the relationship outside the realm of current interactions and the infant-caregiver's mutual correspondence of internal states. This form of connection, hence, results in a self-referential, bodily, and affectively codified, context- and time dependent, like-me experience of interactions. The gradual maturation of brain structures and processes as well as interactive experiences allow proper intersubjectivity exchanges, grounded on new intentional and representational capacities, to evolve. In this more mature form of intersubjectivity, the individual is allowed to conceive of her own psychic space both as distinct and as possibly connected with the other's contents and experience, even in the absence of current behavioral indicators of such correspondence. This multi-layered model of intersubjectivity, which is embraced by current neuroscience research, seems to allow for new interpretations of psychoanalytic models of human relatedness based upon classic clinical observations.
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- Riccardo Williams
- Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Fiske A, de Klerk C, Lui KYK, Collins-Jones L, Hendry A, Greenhalgh I, Hall A, Scerif G, Dvergsdal H, Holmboe K. The neural correlates of inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Neuroimage 2022; 257:119241. [PMID: 35537598 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 04/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Inhibitory control, a core executive function, emerges in infancy and develops rapidly across childhood. Methodological limitations have meant that studies investigating the neural correlates underlying inhibitory control in infancy are rare. Employing functional near-infrared spectroscopy alongside a novel touchscreen task that measures response inhibition, this study aimed to uncover the neural underpinnings of inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants (N = 135). We found that when inhibition was required, the right prefrontal and parietal cortices were more activated than when there was no inhibitory demand. This demonstrates that inhibitory control in infants as young as 10 months of age is supported by similar brain areas as in older children and adults. With this study we have lowered the age-boundary for localising the neural substrates of response inhibition to the first year of life.
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- Abigail Fiske
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Institute of Mental Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Nord University Business School, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organisation, Bodø, Norway
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Dhand A, Podury A, Choudhry N, Narayanan S, Shin M, Mehl MR. Leveraging Social Networks for the Assessment and Management of Neurological Patients. Semin Neurol 2022; 42:136-148. [PMID: 35675821 PMCID: PMC9256089 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1744532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Social networks are the persons surrounding a patient who provide support, circulate information, and influence health behaviors. For patients seen by neurologists, social networks are one of the most proximate social determinants of health that are actually accessible to clinicians, compared with wider social forces such as structural inequalities. We can measure social networks and related phenomena of social connection using a growing set of scalable and quantitative tools increasing familiarity with social network effects and mechanisms. This scientific approach is built on decades of neurobiological and psychological research highlighting the impact of the social environment on physical and mental well-being, nervous system structure, and neuro-recovery. Here, we review the biology and psychology of social networks, assessment methods including novel social sensors, and the design of network interventions and social therapeutics.
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- Amar Dhand
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard Medical School, Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Lopera‐Perez DC, Nayak S, Stangier G, Tuladhar CT, St. John AM, Grieve PG, Tarullo AR. Infants’ neural sensitivity to social interactions varies by income and infant‐directed speech. Dev Psychobiol 2022; 64:e22265. [DOI: 10.1002/dev.22265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Diana C. Lopera‐Perez
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Boston University Boston Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Boston University Boston Massachusetts USA
- Department of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville Tennessee USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Boston University Boston Massachusetts USA
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Philipps‐University of Marburg Marburg Germany
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Boston University Boston Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Boston University Boston Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Pediatrics Columbia University Medical Center New York New York USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Boston University Boston Massachusetts USA
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Finn ES, Glerean E, Hasson U, Vanderwal T. Naturalistic imaging: The use of ecologically valid conditions to study brain function. Neuroimage 2021; 247:118776. [PMID: 34864153 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Si X, Xiang S, Zhang L, Li S, Zhang K, Ming D. Acupuncture With deqi Modulates the Hemodynamic Response and Functional Connectivity of the Prefrontal-Motor Cortical Network. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:693623. [PMID: 34483822 PMCID: PMC8415569 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.693623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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As a world intangible cultural heritage, acupuncture is considered an essential modality of complementary and alternative therapy to Western medicine. Despite acupuncture’s long history and public acceptance, how the cortical network is modulated by acupuncture remains largely unclear. Moreover, as the basic acupuncture unit for regulating the central nervous system, how the cortical network is modulated during acupuncture at the Hegu acupoint is mostly unclear. Here, multi-channel functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data were recorded from twenty healthy subjects for acupuncture manipulation, pre- and post-manipulation tactile controls, and pre- and post-acupuncture rest controls. Results showed that: (1) acupuncture manipulation caused significantly increased acupuncture behavioral deqi performance compared with tactile controls. (2) The bilateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) and motor cortex were significantly inhibited during acupuncture manipulation than controls, which was evidenced by the decreased power of oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO) concentration. (3) The bilateral PFC’s hemodynamic responses showed a positive correlation trend with acupuncture behavioral performance. (4) The network connections with bilateral PFC as nodes showed significantly increased functional connectivity during acupuncture manipulation compared with controls. (5) Meanwhile, the network’s efficiency was improved by acupuncture manipulation, evidenced by the increased global efficiency and decreased shortest path length. Taken together, these results reveal that a cooperative PFC-Motor functional network could be modulated by acupuncture manipulation at the Hegu acupoint. This study provides neuroimaging evidence that explains acupuncture’s neuromodulation effects on the cortical network.
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- Xiaopeng Si
- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Brain Science and Neural Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin International Engineering Institute, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.,Institute of Applied Psychology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Brain Science and Neural Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin International Engineering Institute, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Brain Science and Neural Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Brain Science and Neural Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Brain Science and Neural Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Brain Science and Neural Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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Devezas MÂM. Shedding light on neuroscience: Two decades of functional near-infrared spectroscopy applications and advances from a bibliometric perspective. J Neuroimaging 2021; 31:641-655. [PMID: 34002425 DOI: 10.1111/jon.12877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a noninvasive optical brain-imaging technique that detects changes in hemoglobin concentration in the cerebral cortex. fNIRS devices are safe, silent, portable, robust against motion artifacts, and have good temporal resolution. fNIRS is reliable and trustworthy, as well as an alternative and a complement to other brain-imaging modalities, such as electroencephalography or functional magnetic resonance imaging. Given these advantages, fNIRS has become a well-established tool for neuroscience research, used not only for healthy cortical activity but also as a biomarker during clinical assessment in individuals with schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, bipolar disease, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, and cancer screening. Owing to its wide applicability, studies on fNIRS have increased exponentially over the last two decades. In this study, scientific publications indexed in the Web of Science databases were collected and a bibliometric-type methodology was developed. For this purpose, a comprehensive science mapping analysis, including top-ranked authors, journals, institutions, countries, and co-occurring keywords network, was conducted. From a total of 2310 eligible documents, 6028 authors and 531 journals published fNIRS-related papers, Fallgatter published the highest number of articles and was the most cited author. University of Tübingen in Germany has produced the most trending papers since 2000. USA was the most prolific country with the most active institutions, followed by China, Japan, Germany, and South Korea. The results also revealed global trends in emerging areas of research, such as neurodevelopment, aging, and cognitive and emotional assessment.
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Cai L, Okada E, Minagawa Y, Kawaguchi H. Correlating functional near-infrared spectroscopy with underlying cortical regions of 0-, 1-, and 2-year-olds using theoretical light propagation analysis. NEUROPHOTONICS 2021; 8:025009. [PMID: 34079846 PMCID: PMC8166262 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.8.2.025009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Significance: The establishment of a light propagation analysis-based scalp-cortex correlation (SCC) between the scalp location of the source-detector (SD) pair and brain regions is essential for measuring functional brain development in the first 2 years of life using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Aim: We aimed to reveal the optics-based SCC of 0-, 1-, and 2-year-olds (yo) and the suitable SD distance for this age period. Approach: Light propagation analyses using age-appropriate head models were conducted on SD pairs at 10-10 fiducial points on the scalp to obtain optics-based SCC and its metrics: the number of corresponding brain regions ( N C B R ), selectivity and sensitivity of the most likely corresponding brain region (MLCBR), and consistency of the MLCBR across developmental ages. Moreover, we assessed the suitable SD distances for 0-, 1-, and 2-yo by simultaneously considering the selectivity and sensitivity of the MLCBR. Results: Age-related changes in the SCC metrics were observed. For instance, the N C B R of 0-yo was larger than that of 1- and 2-yo. Conversely, the selectivity of 0-yo was lower than that of 1- and 2-yo. The sensitivity of 1-yo was higher than that of 0-yo at 15- to 30-mm SD distances and higher than that of 2-yo at 10-mm SD distance. Notably, the MLCBR of the fiducial points around the longitudinal fissure was inconsistent across age groups. An SD distance between 15 and 25 mm was found to be appropriate for satisfying both sensitivity and selectivity requirements. In addition, this work provides reference tables of optics-based SCC for 0-, 1-, and 2-yo. Conclusions: Optics-based SCC will be informative in designing and explaining child developmental studies using fNIRS. The suitable SD distances were between 15 and 25 mm for the first 2 years of life.
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- Lin Cai
- Keio University, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Yokohama, Japan
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- Keio University, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Yokohama, Japan
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- Keio University, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Yokohama, Japan
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Human Informatics and Interaction Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
- Address all correspondence to Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
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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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