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ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2025

Longitudinal habituation and novelty detection neural responses from infancy to early childhood in The Gambia and UK.

Anna Blasi Ribera, Borja Blanco Maniega, Samantha McCann, Ebrima Mbye, Ebou Touray, Maria Rozhko, Bosiljka Milosavljevic, Laura Katus, Mariama Saidykhan, Muhammed Ceesay and 8 more

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Anna Blasi RiberaDepartment of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: a.blasi@ucl.ac.uk.
Borja Blanco ManiegaDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: bb579@cam.ac.uk.
Samantha McCannWomen and Children's Health, King's College London, UK; MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Gambia. Electronic address: samantha.mccann@kcl.ac.uk.
Ebrima MbyeMRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Gambia. Electronic address: ebrima.mbye@lshtm.ac.uk.
Ebou TourayMRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Gambia. Electronic address: etouray@mrc.gm.
Maria RozhkoDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: mr715@cam.ac.uk.
Bosiljka MilosavljevicCentre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, UK; Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Electronic address: b.milosavljevic@qmul.ac.uk.
Laura KatusDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Institute for Life course Development, University of Greenwich, UK. Electronic address: l.katus@greenwich.ac.uk.
Mariama SaidykhanMRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Gambia. Electronic address: masaidykhan@mrc.gm.
Muhammed CeesayMRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Gambia. Electronic address: mceesay@mrc.gm.
Tijan FaderaMRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Gambia. Electronic address: tfadera@mrc.gm.
Giulia GhilliaDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Women and Children's Health, King's College London, UK; Research and Partnership Department, Nuiversity of Liverpool, UK. Electronic address: Giulia.Ghillia@liverpool.ac.uk.
Marta Perapoch AmadoDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: u2060511@uel.ac.uk.
Maria M Crespo-LladoDepartment of Health Data Science, University of Liverspool, UK. Electronic address: M.Crespo-Llado@liverpool.ac.uk.
Sophie E MooreWomen and Children's Health, King's College London, UK; MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Gambia. Electronic address: sophie.moore@kcl.ac.uk.
Clare E ElwellDepartment of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: c.elwell@ucl.ac.uk.
Sarah Lloyd-FoxDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Electronic address: sl868@cam.ac.uk.
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Abstract

As infants and young children learn from and respond to their environment, their development is driven by their ability to filter out irrelevant stimuli and respond to salient stimuli. While sources and types of stimuli vary across cultural contexts, research to understand the neural mechanisms of these behaviors have largely focused on relatively homogeneous populations in high income settings. To address this lack of diverse representation the Brain Imaging for Global health project (BRIGHT) collected longitudinal data in The Gambia (N = 204) and the UK (N = 61). Here we present results of the Habituation and Novelty Detection (HaND) fNIRS neuroimaging task. Gambian infants showed persistent response suppression (Habituation) at all visits (from 5mo to 60mo) while Novelty Detection was only observed once infants reached 18 and 24mo. In the UK, infants only showed persistent habituation from 5 to 12mo, while the response was not evident at 18 and 24mo. Furthermore, in contrast to The Gambia, alongside the habituation patterns observed Uk infants showed novelty detection from 5 to 12mo. This is the first longitudinal description of the HaND response in individuals from different contextual backgrounds across such a broad age range and number of time points, revealing different patterns of specialization in The Gambia and UK.

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BrainChild DevelopmentHabituation, PsychophysiologicChild, PreschoolFemaleGambiaHumansInfantLongitudinal StudiesMaleSpectroscopy, Near-InfraredUnited KingdomFNIRSGlobal healthHabituationInfant neurodevelopmentNovelty detectionResponse suppression

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