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

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 o

SUBMITTER: Blasi Ribera A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12523068 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature