ReviewFrontiers in psychology2016
Quantifying Motor Experience in the Infant Brain: EEG Power, Coherence, and Mu Desynchronization.
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- EEG signatures of motor development in early childhood: a systematic review.Pediatric research · 2026Pooled it
- Cognitive and Motor Outcomes of Children With Prenatal Opioid Exposure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2019Pooled it
- Alcohol use disorder is associated with altered frontomedial phase-amplitude coupling strength during resting state.Neuroimage. Reports · 2026Article
- Neural correlates of familiar and unfamiliar action in infancy.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2022Article
- Factors moderating the link between early childhood non-parental care and ADHD symptoms.Heliyon · 2021Article
- Electroencephalography measures of relative power and coherence as reaching skill emerges in infants born preterm.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Mu Rhythm during Standing and Walking Is Altered in Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Compared to Children with Typical Development.Developmental neurorehabilitation · 2021Article
- A Look Into the Power of fNIRS Signals by Using the Welch Power Spectral Estimate for Deception Detection.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Electroencephalography power and coherence changes with age and motor skill development across the first half year of life.PloS one · 2018Article
- A Within-subjects Experimental Protocol to Assess the Effects of Social Input on Infant EEG.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2017Article
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Abstract
The emergence of new motor skills, such as reaching and walking, dramatically changes how infants engage with the world socially and cognitively. Several examples of how motor experience can cascade into cognitive and social development have been documented, yet a significant knowledge gap remains in our understanding of whether these observed behavioral changes are accompanied by underlying neural changes. We propose that electroencephalography (EEG) measures such as power, coherence, and mu desynchronization are optimal tools to quantify motor experience in the infant brain. In this mini-review, we will summarize existing infant research that has separately assessed the relation between motor, cognitive, or social development with coherence, power, or mu desynchronization. We will discuss how the reviewed neural changes seen in seemingly separate developmental domains may be linked based on existing behavioral evidence. We will further propose that power, coherence, and mu desynchronization be used in research exploring the links between motor experience and cognitive and social development.
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