ArticleNature human behaviour2023
Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Nutrition as the Foundation of Human Capital: Pathways to Holistic Development.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Review
- Altitude of area of residence as a risk factor for stunting in children aged 0-60 months: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Dialogues in health · 2026Review
- Early Life Resting-State Network Functional Connectivity and Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes after Neonatal Encephalopathy.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2026Article
- Household stress moderates the association between caregiver metacognition and infant sustained attention.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Being on Track for Early Childhood Development in Kinshasa: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Intestinal microbiome changes in response to amino acid and micronutrient supplementation: secondary analysis of the AMAZE trial.Gut microbiome (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Dynamic Field Theory of Executive Function: Identifying Early Neurocognitive Markers.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2024Article
- Infant neuroscience: how to measure brain activity in the youngest minds.Trends in neurosciences · 2024Review
- Brain-Behavior Associations During Interactions Between Caregivers and Infants.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
Stunting is associated with poor long-term cognitive, academic and economic outcomes, yet the mechanisms through which stunting impacts cognition in early development remain unknown. In a first-ever neuroimaging study conducted on infants from rural India, we demonstrate that stunting impacts a critical, early-developing cognitive system-visual working memory. Stunted infants showed poor visual working memory performance and were easily distractible. Poor performance was associated with reduced engagement of the left anterior intraparietal sulcus, a region involved in visual working memory maintenance and greater suppression in the right temporoparietal junction, a region involved in attentional shifting. When assessed one year later, stunted infants had lower problem-solving scores, while infants of normal height with greater left anterior intraparietal sulcus activation showed higher problem-solving scores. Finally, short-for-age infants with poor physical growth indices but good visual working memory performance showed more positive outcomes suggesting that intervention efforts should focus on improving working memory and reducing distractibility in infancy.
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