Developmental Changes

The portability of fNIRS, its performance in presence of general movements and the feasibility it offers in exploring cortical responses in social environments, represent the greatest advantages for studies on brain functional changes during development of infants and children.

N. Altvater-Mackensen and T. Grossmann, “Modality-independent recruitment of inferior frontal cortex during speech processing in human infants,” Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 34, pp. 130–138, Nov. 2018. 

T. Grossmann, M. Missana, and K. M. Krol, “The neurodevelopmental precursors of altruistic behavior in infancy,” PLOS Biology, vol. 16, no. 9, p. e2005281, Sep. 2018.

C. Issard and J. Gervain, “Adult-like processing of time-compressed speech by newborns: A NIRS study,” Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Oct. 2017.

M. Mücke, C. Andrä, M. Gerber, U. Pühse, and S. Ludyga, “Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, executive functions and prefrontal brain oxygenation in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study,” Journal of Sports Sciences, pp. 1–7, May 2017.

S. Benavides-Varela and J. Gervain, “Learning word order at birth: A NIRS study,” Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Mar. 2017.

H. Obrig, J. Mock, F. Stephan, M. Richter, M. Vignotto, and S. Rossi, “Impact of associative word learning on phonotactic processing in 6-month-old infants: A combined EEG and fNIRS study,” Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Sep. 2016.

C. Bouchon, T. Nazzi, and J. Gervain, “Hemispheric Asymmetries in Repetition Enhancement and Suppression Effects in the Newborn Brain,” PLOS ONE, vol. 10, no. 10, p. e0140160, Oct. 2015.

J. Mehnert et al., “Developmental changes in brain activation and functional connectivity during response inhibition in the early childhood brain,” Brain Dev., vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 894–904, Nov. 2013.

T. T. Brink et al., “The role of orbitofrontal cortex in processing empathy stories in 4- to 8-year-old children,” Front Psychol, vol. 2, p. 80, 2011.

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