Using multi-modal neuroimaging to characterise social brain specialisation in infants.

ABSTRACT: The specialised regional functionality of the mature human cortex partly emerges through experience-dependent specialisation during early development. Our existing understanding of functional specialisation in the infant brain is based on evidence from unitary imaging modalities and has thus focused on isolated estimates of spatial or temporal selectivity of neural or haemodynamic activation, giving an incomplete picture. We speculate that functional specialisation will be underpinned by better coordinated haemodynamic and metabolic changes in a broadly orchestrated physiological response. To enable researchers to track this process through development, we develop new tools that allow the simultaneous measurement of coordinated neural activity (EEG), metabolic rate, and oxygenated blood su

SUBMITTER: Siddiqui M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10624424 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature