Combining Real-Time Neuroimaging With Machine Learning to Study Attention to Familiar Faces During Infancy: A Proof of Principle Study.

ABSTRACT: Looking at caregivers' faces is important for early social development, and there is a concomitant increase in neural correlates of attention to familiar versus novel faces in the first 6 months. However, by 12 months of age brain responses may not differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar faces. Traditional group-based analyses do not examine whether these 'null' findings stem from a true lack of preference within individual infants, or whether groups of infants show individually strong but heterogeneous preferences for familiar versus unfamiliar faces. In a preregistered proof-of-principle study, we applied Neuroadaptive Bayesian Optimisation (NBO) to test how individual infants' neural responses vary across faces differing in familiarity. Sixty-one 5-12-month-olds viewed faces resul

SUBMITTER: Throm E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11599787 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature