Audiovisual integration and whole-brain networks in preterm and full-term neonates: A two-layer multiplex network perspective on structural and functional connectivity.

ABSTRACT: Audiovisual integration (AVI) is linked to the development of several cognitive abilities, rendering it a vehicle to better understand and anticipate a wide range of sequelae associated with preterm (PT) birth. In the present study, we aimed to complement the scarce literature on PT birth and AVI early in life, by investigating neonatal brain networks encompassing areas reported in the infant AVI literature. We used data from the Developing Human Connectome Project (http://www.developingconnectome.org/) to build two localized and one whole-brain connectomes from functional and structural connectivity data. Using graph analysis on a multiplex structural-functional brain network, we investigated the association between prematurity and (1) the edges present in functional and structural networ

SUBMITTER: Quinones JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12534712 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature