ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2018
Methodological challenges in the comparison of infant fMRI across age groups.
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- Quantitative susceptibility mapping in pediatric neuroimaging: a systematic review of applications and advancements.Pediatric radiology · 2026Pooled it
- Functional brain connectivity from the fetal period through infancy: A narrative review of resting-state fMRI studies.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Significant interactions in infant operculum regions when exposed to a bilingual environment: a resting-state fNIRS study.Neurophotonics · 2025Article
- The generalizability of cortical area parcellations across early childhood.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- The Evolving Cerebellar and Cerebello-cortical Functional Connectivity Architecture during Infancy.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
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- The Hitchhiker's guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Longitudinal developmental trajectories of functional connectivity reveal regional distribution of distinct age effects in infancy.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Development of BOLD Response to Motion in Human Infants.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Baby Brains at Work: How Task-Based Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Can Illuminate the Early Emergence of Psychiatric Risk.Biological psychiatry · 2023Review
- Infant brain regional cerebral blood flow increases supporting emergence of the default-mode network.eLife · 2023Article
- Task-based functional neuroimaging in infants: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- The confound of head position in within-session connectome fingerprinting in infants.NeuroImage · 2023Article
- The use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy in tracking neurodevelopmental trajectories in infants and children with or without developmental disorders: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Anatomical correlates of category-selective visual regions have distinctive signatures of connectivity in neonates.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Resting-state functional connectivity identifies individuals and predicts age in 8-to-26-month-olds.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Real-time motion monitoring improves functional MRI data quality in infants.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- An ode to fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging: Chronicling early clinical to research applications with MRI, and an introduction to an academic society connecting the field.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Review
- Filtering respiratory motion artifact from resting state fMRI data in infant and toddler populations.NeuroImage · 2022Article
- Hippocampal functional connectivity development during the first two years indexes 4-year working memory performance.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2021Article
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- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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Abstract
Functional MRI (fMRI) in infants is rapidly growing and providing fundamental insights into the origins of brain functions. Comparing brain development at different ages is particularly powerful, but there are a number of methodological challenges that must be addressed if confounds are to be avoided. With development, brains change in composition in a way that alters their tissue contrast, and in size, shape, and gyrification, requiring careful image processing strategies and age-specific standard templates. The hemodynamic response and other aspects of physiology change with age, requiring careful paradigm design and analysis methods. Infants move more, particularly around the second year of age, and move in a different way to adults. This movement can lead to distortion in fMRI images, and requires tailored techniques during acquisition and post-processing. Infants have different sleep patterns, and their sensory periphery is changing macroscopically and in its neural pathways. Finally, once data have been acquired and analyzed, there are important considerations during mapping of brain processes and cognitive functions across age groups. In summary, new methods are critical to the comparison across age groups, and key to maximizing the rate at which infant fMRI can provide insight into the fascinating questions about the origin of cognition.
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