Inter-subject synchrony as an index of functional specialization in early childhood.

ABSTRACT: Early childhood is a time of significant change within multiple cognitive domains including social cognition, memory, executive function, and language; however, the corresponding neural changes remain poorly understood. This is likely due to the difficulty in acquiring artifact-free functional MRI data during complex task-based or unconstrained resting-state experiments in young children. In addition, task-based and resting state experiments may not capture dynamic real-world processing. Here we overcome both of these challenges through use of naturalistic viewing (i.e., passively watching a movie in the scanner) combined with inter-subject neural synchrony to examine functional specialization within 4- and 6-year old children. Using a novel and stringent crossed random effect statistical

SUBMITTER: Moraczewski D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797124 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature