ArticleScientific reports2014
Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to assess cognitive function in infants in rural Africa.
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Multidimensional Evaluation of the Early Emergence of Executive Function and Emotional Regulation in Young Children in Bangladesh Using Nutritional and Psychosocial Intervention: A Pilot Study
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 128 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Massage-Related Changes in Cortical Activity and Cerebral Oxygenation in Healthy Term Infants: An Exploratory EEG-fNIRS Study with Sex-Specific Observations.Neurology international · 2026Article
- Functional specialisation across the first five years of life: A longitudinal characterisation of social perception with fNIRS.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Longitudinal habituation and novelty detection neural responses from infancy to early childhood in The Gambia and UK.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Reconfigurable hardware-accelerated, multi-channel, adaptive temperature control platform of VCSELs for high-density fNIRS/DOT.Biomedical optics express · 2025Article
- Simultaneous Eye Tracking and Cerebral Hemodynamic Monitoring in Infants: A Guide for Pediatric Outpatient Follow-Up.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Fundamental effects of array density and modulation frequency on image quality of diffuse optical tomography.Medical physics · 2025Article
- Categorization and discrimination of human and non-human primate affective vocalizations: Investigation of frontal cortex activity through fNIRS.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Analytical pipeline optimisation in developmental fNIRS hyperscanning data: Neural coherence between 4- to 6-year old children collaborating with their mothers.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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- Whole-head high-density diffuse optical tomography to map infant audio-visual responses to social and non-social stimuli.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
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- The landscape of neuroscience research in Africa: current state, progress, and challenges; a perspective.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Enhancing precision in human neuroscience.eLife · 2023Review
- Developing customized NIRS-EEG for infant sleep research: methodological considerations.Neurophotonics · 2023Article
- Longitudinal fNIRS and EEG metrics of habituation and novelty detection are correlated in 1-18-month-old infants.NeuroImage · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cortical mapping of cognitive function during infancy is poorly understood in low-income countries due to the lack of transportable neuroimaging methods. We have successfully piloted functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) as a neuroimaging tool in rural Gambia. Four-to-eight month old infants watched videos of Gambian adults perform social movements, while haemodynamic responses were recorded using fNIRS. We found distinct regions of the posterior superior temporal and inferior frontal cortex that evidenced either visual-social activation or vocally selective activation (vocal > non-vocal). The patterns of selective cortical activation in Gambian infants replicated those observed within similar aged infants in the UK. These are the first reported data on the measurement of localized functional brain activity in young infants in Africa and demonstrate the potential that fNIRS offers for field-based neuroimaging research of cognitive function in resource-poor rural communities.
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