2024
Infant neuroscience: how to measure brain activity in the youngest minds
Turk-Browne N, Aslin R. Infant neuroscience: how to measure brain activity in the youngest minds. Trends In Neurosciences 2024, 47: 338-354. PMID: 38570212, DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2024.02.003.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsFunctional magnetic resonance imagingFunctional near-infrared spectroscopyMeasure brain activityBrain activityApplication of functional magnetic resonance imagingHuman infantsCognitive neuroscienceCognitive tasksInfant brainAwake infantsMagnetic resonance imagingNear-infrared spectroscopyMagnetoencephalographyMindfulnessResonance imagingNon-invasive methodInfantsElectroencephalography
2023
Functional networks in the infant brain during sleep and wake states
Yates T, Ellis C, Turk-Browne N. Functional networks in the infant brain during sleep and wake states. Cerebral Cortex 2023, 33: 10820-10835. PMID: 37718160, DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad327.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFunctional connectivityMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scansFunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scansWhole-brain functional connectivityResonance imaging scansInfant stateFunctional networksImaging scansAdult stateNatural sleepFunctional brain networksInfantsAwake restAwake fMRIInfant brainSleepBrain networksAdultsFrontoparietal control networkWake statesState of consciousnessDevelopmental changesBrain
2022
Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown
Yates T, Ellis C, Turk‐Browne N. Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown. Developmental Psychobiology 2022, 65: e22346. PMID: 36567649, PMCID: PMC9877889, DOI: 10.1002/dev.22346.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFusiform face areaVisual experienceInfant brainDifferent face identitiesGreater neural activityPost-lockdown groupFace processingRepetition enhancementFace identityRepetition suppressionSuppression taskFace areaNeural activitySame identityDifferent identitiesSerendipitous studyFFA responseFacePandemic lockdownCOVID-19 pandemicFMRIQuantity/qualityInfantsExperienceIdentityNeural event segmentation of continuous experience in human infants
Yates T, Skalaban L, Ellis C, Bracher A, Baldassano C, Turk-Browne N. Neural event segmentation of continuous experience in human infants. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2022, 119: e2200257119. PMID: 36252007, PMCID: PMC9618143, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2200257119.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly visual regionsEvent segmentationVisual regionsAdults' brain activityContinuous sensory inputFunctional MRI dataEvent cognitionNaturalistic perceptionBehavioral judgmentsInfants' segmentationEvent boundariesNeural patternsBrain activitySensory regionsContinuous experienceSimplified taskInfant brainHuman infantsAssociative regionsSensory inputTemporal integrationAwake infantsBrain regionsAdult experienceTemporal precision
2021
Attention recruits frontal cortex in human infants
Ellis CT, Skalaban LJ, Yates TS, Turk-Browne NB. Attention recruits frontal cortex in human infants. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2021, 118: e2021474118. PMID: 33727420, PMCID: PMC7999871, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2021474118.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFunctional magnetic resonance imagingEvent-related functional magnetic resonance imagingOrienting of attentionAllocation of attentionInfant attentionInvalid trialsBrief cueUpcoming targetValid trialsFMRI activityInfants' fixationsTrial typesSalient eventsNeural effectsAttention networkFrontal regionsInfant brainHuman infantsParietal lobeBrain regionsFrontal cortexYoung infantsCuesInfant ageAttention