Reproducibility of infant fNIRS studies: a meta-analytic approach.

ABSTRACT:

Significance

Concerns about the reproducibility of experimental findings have recently emerged in many disciplines, from psychology to medicine and neuroscience. As NIRS is a relatively recent brain imaging technique, the question of reproducibility has not yet been systematically addressed.

Aim

The current study seeks to test the replicability of effects observed in NIRS experiments assessing young infants' rule-learning ability.

Approach

We conducted meta-analyses and mixed-effects modeling-based inferential statistics to determine whether effect sizes were replicable and comparable in a sample of 23 NIRS studies investigating infants' abilities to process repetition- and diversity-based regularities in linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory and visual sequences. Add

SUBMITTER: Gemignani J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9997722 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature