ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2018
The infant brain in the social world: Moving toward interactive social neuroscience with functional near-infrared spectroscopy.
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- The role and application of task-state fNIRS in identifying biomarkers in children and adolescents with ADHD: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Activation of Brain Regions Associated with Working Memory and Inhibitory Control in Patients with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: A Systematic Review.Current medical imaging · 2023Pooled it
- Can You Feel My Pain? Neural-Behavioural Changes in Caregiver-Infant Dyads During Ostracism.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Cortical activity during cognitive and walking tasks in individuals with chronic nonspecific low back pain: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- The Cognitive-Affective Social Processing and Emotion Regulation (CASPER) model.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- The neural bases of language processing during social and non-social contexts: a fNIRS study of autistic and neurotypical preschool-aged children.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Cortical functional connectivity and topology based on complex network graph theory analysis during acute pain stimuli.Neurophotonics · 2025Article
- ninjaNIRS: an open hardware solution for wearable whole-head high-density functional near-infrared spectroscopy.Biomedical optics express · 2024Article
- The Neural Bases of Language Processing During Social and Non-Social Contexts: A fNIRS Study of Autistic and Neurotypical Preschool-Aged Children.Research square · 2024Article
- Prefrontal Cortex Responses to Social Video Stimuli in Young Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder.Brain sciences · 2024Article
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- From behavioral synchrony to language and beyond.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Review
- Real-time monitoring of infant theta power during naturalistic social experiences.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Maternal and neonatal blood vitamin D status and neurodevelopment at 24 months of age: a prospective birth cohort study.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2023Article
- Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy to study the early developing brain: future directions and new challenges.Neurophotonics · 2023Article
- Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy as a Personalized Digital Healthcare Tool for Brain Monitoring.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2023Review
- Hotspots and trends in fNIRS disease research: A bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
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- MOCA: a systematic toolbox for designing and assessing modular functional near-infrared brain imaging probes.Neurophotonics · 2022Article
- Maturational trajectory of fusiform gyrus neural activity when viewing faces: From 4 months to 4 years old.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Typically developing infants rapidly acquire a sophisticated array of social skills within the first year of life. These social skills are largely learned within the context of day-to-day interactions with caregivers. While social neuroscience has made great gains in our knowledge of the underlying neural circuitry of social cognition and behavior, much of this work has focused on experiments that sacrifice ecological validity for experimental control. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising methodology for measuring brain activity in the context of naturalistic social interactions. Here, we review what we have learned from fNIRS studies that have used traditional experimental stimuli to study social development during infancy. We then discuss recent infant fNIRS studies that have utilized more naturalistic social stimuli, followed by a discussion of applications of this methodology to the study of atypical social development, with a focus on infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder. We end with recommendations for applying fNIRS to studies of typically developing and at-risk infants in naturalistic social situations.
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