Association of psychosocial adversity and social information processing in children raised in a low-resource setting: an fNIRS study.

ABSTRACT: Social cognition skills and socioemotional development are compromised in children growing up in low SES contexts, however, the mechanisms underlying this association remain unknown. Exposure to psychosocial risk factors early in life alters the child's social milieu and in turn, could lead to atypical processing of social stimuli. In this study, we used functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure cortical responses to a social discrimination task in children raised in a low-resource setting at 6, 24, and 36 months. In addition, we assessed the relation between cortical responses to social and non-social information with psychosocial risk factors assessed using the Childhood Psychosocial Adversity Scale (CPAS). In line with previous findings, we observed specialization to soci

SUBMITTER: Pirazzoli L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9241055 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature