Article
Psychology, Developmental
Leher Singh, Annabel R. Y. Tan
Summary: The study showed that infants exhibit differences in sensitivity to Hindi sound contrasts at 14 months, and bilingual infants at 24 months showed lower sensitivity to the contrast.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Gorm Greisen
Summary: This study aims to develop a cerebral oximeter based on near-infrared spectroscopy, and to establish a research agenda based on a combination of digital and physical models to determine the optimal detector geometry for measuring cerebral oxygen saturation.
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS
(2022)
Article
Pediatrics
Marlies Bruckner, Gianluca Lista, Ola D. Saugstad, Georg M. Schmoelzer
Summary: Approximately 800,000 newborns die annually due to birth asphyxia. Resuscitation of asphyxiated term newborns requires experience and knowledge, with differences compared to preterm infants. Studies following the 2015 update of guidelines aim to improve outcomes for asphyxiated infants.
Article
Neurosciences
Borja Blanco, Monika Molnar, Manuel Carreiras, Liam H. Collins-Jones, Ernesto Vidal, Robert J. Cooper, Cesar Caballero-Gaudes
Summary: Early monolingual versus bilingual experience can impact the development of linguistic and cognitive processes, with adaptations observed in resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) due to lifelong bilingual experience. This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to investigate RSFC in 4-month-old monolingual and bilingual infants, finding no differences in RSFC between the two groups at this early age. This suggests that adaptations in RSFC may only emerge during explicit linguistic tasks or later in development.
Review
Developmental Biology
Rosana Maria Tristao, Lucas Lauand, Kassandra Silva Falcao Costa, Luiz Alberto Brant, Geraldo Magela Fernandes, Karina Nascimento Costa, Jan Spilski, Thomas Lachmann
Summary: Research shows that fetuses can process olfactory stimuli in the womb and continue to prefer these odors after birth. However, there is currently a lack of validated scales for odor response in newborns. Evaluation of infant olfactory reaction to environmental stimuli relies on experimental and clinical assessment tools.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Brian Brocato, David Lewis, Fabien Eyal, Susan Baker, Casey Armistead, Alan David Kaye, Elyse M. Cornett, Richard M. Whitehurst
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the impact of a prenatal education program for opioid-dependent women on breastfeeding frequency, newborn hospital length of stay, and cost of care. The results showed that prenatal NAS education significantly increased breastfeeding initiation rates and decreased newborn length of stay.
ADVANCES IN THERAPY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Abigail Fiske, Carina de Klerk, Katie Y. K. Lui, Liam Collins-Jones, Alexandra Hendry, Isobel Greenhalgh, Anna Hall, Gaia Scerif, Henrik Dvergsdal, Karla Holmboe
Summary: Inhibitory control, a core executive function, develops rapidly from infancy and is supported by the right prefrontal and parietal cortices in 10-month-old infants.
Article
Pediatrics
Juliette Suhard, Cathie Faussat, Baptiste Morel, Emeline Laurent, Geraldine Favrais
Summary: This study suggests that plasma magnesium levels may be associated with perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic brain injuries. However, there was no strong correlation between plasma magnesium levels and the severity of clinical encephalopathy, brain lesions, and initial EEG background. Interestingly, higher plasma magnesium values were linked to white matter brain injuries and the need for cardiac resuscitation. Seizures were associated with lower mean magnesium levels around the 24th hour of life.
Article
Pediatrics
Ena Pritisanac, Berndt Urlesberger, Bernhard Schwaberger, Gerhard Pichler
Summary: Limited data available currently suggest that fetal hemoglobin might affect peripheral muscle oxygen extraction but not cerebral oxygenation in preterm neonates. More studies are needed to reach a final conclusion, especially regarding the oxygenation changes driven by adult red blood cell transfusions.
FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS
(2021)
Article
Pediatrics
Liesbeth Thewissen, Gunnar Naulaers, Dries Hendrikx, Alexander Caicedo, Keith Barrington, Geraldine Boylan, Po-Yin Cheung, David Corcoran, Afif El-Khuffash, Aisling Garvey, Jozef Macko, Neil Marlow, Jan Miletin, Colm P. F. O'Donnell, John M. O'Toole, Zbynek Stranak, David Van Laere, Hana Wiedermannova, Eugene Dempsey
Summary: Treatment of hypotension with dopamine in extremely preterm infants increases mean arterial blood pressure, but does not improve cerebral oxygenation. Hypotensive extremely preterm infants have increased duration of cerebral hypoxia and reduced cerebral autoregulatory capacity compared to non-hypotensive infants. Duration of cerebral hypoxia and hypotension are associated with early intraventricular hemorrhage or death in extremely preterm infants. Since systematic treatment of hypotension may not be associated with better outcomes, the diagnosis of cerebral hypoxia in hypotensive extremely preterm infants might guide treatment.
PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Alexander Avian, Christian Mattersberger, Lukas Schober, Johann Martensen, Martin Wolf, Wataru Kamo, Gerhard Pichler, Bernhard Schwaberger, Berndt Urlesberger
Summary: This study aimed to analyze the precision of time-resolved near-infrared spectroscopy (t-NIRS) measurements of cerebral oxygenation in preterm infants. The results showed low within-patient variation, indicating high precision of the measurement.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Mousumi Laha, Amit Konar, Atulya K. K. Nagar
Summary: The paper presents a new approach that uses a functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy device to automatically assess the olfactory perceptual-ability of human-subjects. The method employs fuzzy functional mapping and Type-2 fuzzy reasoning to establish the relationship between spectroscopic measurement and perceptual-ability. The proposed technique outperforms traditional functional mapping methods such as neural networks and regression analysis.
Article
Pediatrics
Howard Chao, Sebastian Acosta, Craig Rusin, Christopher Rhee
Summary: Premature infants with immature cerebral autoregulation function are at risk for pressure passive cerebral circulation and subsequent brain injury. Measurements derived from near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) allow continuous assessment of cerebral vasoreactivity. However, there is a lack of clear standardization in the field.
Article
Psychiatry
Chenyang Gao, Leijin Shu, Ting Li
Summary: The early language environment has an impact on infant brain development. The study found that a bilingual experience leads to more pronounced left hemispheric lateralization in the frontal regions of infants, and effective connectivity analysis is a useful method for studying infant resting-state brain networks.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Lei Wang, Meltem Izzetoglu, Juan Du, Hasan Ayaz
Summary: This study comprehensively investigated NIRS measurements using phantoms and simulated head models of different age groups with intracranial hematoma development. The results showed a high correlation between phantom measurements and simulated model-based measurements, and indicated that younger head models were more affected by the presence of hematoma.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Mahshid Fouladivanda, Kamran Kazemi, Malek Makki, Maedeh Khalilian, Habibollah Danyali, Judit Gervain, Ardalan Aarabi
Summary: This study introduced a multi-scale cross-modal approach to investigate the rich club (RC) organization and topology of the structural brain networks in healthy neonates. The results showed the involvement of subcortical, sensory-motor, and default mode networks in the RC organization of the structural brain networks, highlighting the importance of cortico-subcortical and cortico-cerebellar white matter pathways in neonatal brain development.
JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Editorial Material
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Caterina Marino, Carline Bernard, Judit Gervain
M S-MEDECINE SCIENCES
(2021)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Irene de la Cruz-Pavia, Caterina Marino, Judit Gervain
Summary: Research shows that infants as young as 8 months old can distinguish between function words and content words, and have a rudimentary understanding of the order of these lexical categories in their native language. Furthermore, adults and nonhuman animals process linguistic information differently from infants, highlighting the developmental relevance of deriving function/content word order from surface cues in the input. This emphasizes the importance of understanding how grammar acquisition interacts with word learning.
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Caterina Marino, Judit Gervain
Summary: The study found that infants are more likely to learn the functor-initial word order of their native language through short exposure, while large exposure does not yield the same level of understanding.
Editorial Material
Psychology, Experimental
Anne Cutler, Richard N. Aslin, Judit Gervain, Marina Nespor
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Eniko Ladanyi, Agnes Lukacs, Judit Gervain
Summary: Research has shown that exposure to regular musical rhythm can enhance grammatical processing in preschool-aged children, specifically in Hungarian-speaking children, suggesting potential benefits of integrating rhythmic priming into speech-language therapy.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Balint Forgacs, Tibor Tauzin, Gyorgy Gergely, Judit Gervain
Summary: Recent studies have shown that newborns' brains are sensitive to both the structure and functional use of language. They are able to identify different structured pseudowords and respond differently in communicative exchanges.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Balint Forgacs, Judit Gervain, Eugenio Parise, Gyorgy Gergely, Livia Priyanka Elek, Zsuzsanna Ullei-Kovacs, Ildiko Kiraly
Summary: The recently discovered social N400 suggests that our language system is used to track how social partners comprehend language. The semantic systems of the brain not only show sensitivity to social information and contribute to the attribution of comprehension, but also appear to be mentalistic in nature.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Charlotte Hym, Marie-Victorine Dumuids, David Anderson, Vincent Forma, Joelle Provasi, Camille Briere-Dollat, Lionel Granjon, Judit Gervain, Thierry Nazzi, Marianne Barbu-Roth
Summary: Recent research suggests that newborn crawling is not solely controlled by spinal reflex, but can also be influenced by supra-spinal processing of visual, olfactory, and auditory stimuli. Furthermore, this study found that newborns can modulate their crawling in response to their native language, showing enhanced crawling patterns when exposed to sentences in their native language compared to an unfamiliar language.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Caroline Nallet, Judit Gervain
Summary: This paper conducted a systematic review of studies investigating neural synchronization to auditory stimuli in subjects with or at risk for language impairments. The majority of the studies focused on dyslexia. The results suggest an overall atypical oscillatory activity of the auditory cortex in response to speech, associated with language outcomes.
HEARING BALANCE AND COMMUNICATION
(2022)
Editorial Material
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Judit Gervain, Patrizia Trevisi
HEARING BALANCE AND COMMUNICATION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Anna Martinez-Alvarez, Judit Gervain, Elena Koulaguina, Ferran Pons, Ruth de Diego-Balaguer
Summary: In language, the brain needs both statistical and perceptual cues, specifically prosodic cues, to learn nonadjacent dependencies. Early sensitivity to these dependencies is present, but robust and reliable learning can only occur when both cues are present. This study contributes to our understanding of the neural foundations of rule learning in language acquisition.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Irene de la Cruz-Pavia, Gorka Elordieta, Julian Villegas, Judit Gervain, Itziar Laka
Summary: This article examines the cues that adult listeners use to parse new input into phrases and investigates the switch in segmentation strategies between languages for bilinguals. The study shows that bilinguals' choice of segmentation strategy is driven by segmental information and is also modulated by the language of context. Additionally, the study reveals that adult monolinguals prioritize unfamiliar segmental information over statistical cues in conflict situations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Krista Byers-Heinlein, Angeline Sin Mei Tsui, Christina Bergmann, Alexis K. Black, Anna Brown, Maria Julia Carbajal, Samantha Durrant, Christopher T. Fennell, Anne-Caroline Fievet, Michael C. Frank, Anja Gampe, Judit Gervain, Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, J. Kiley Hamlin, Naomi Havron, Mikolaj Hernik, Shila Kerr, Hilary Killam, Kelsey Klassen, Jessica E. Kosie, Agnes Melinda Kovacs, Casey Lew-Williams, Liquan Liu, Nivedita Mani, Caterina Marino, Meghan Mastroberardino, Victoria Mateu, Claire Noble, Adriel John Orena, Linda Polka, Christine E. Potter, Melanie S. Schreiner, Leher Singh, Melanie Soderstrom, Megha Sundara, Connor Waddell, Janet F. Werker, Stephanie Wermelinger
Summary: The study found that bilingual and monolingual infants both prefer IDS over ADS, with no significant difference in preference magnitude between the two groups. However, bilingual infants exposed more to NAE as a native language showed stronger preference for IDS. This suggests that infants, whether monolingual or bilingual, are highly sensitive to the type and frequency of language input in their early environments.
ADVANCES IN METHODS AND PRACTICES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Anne Hillairet de Boisferon, Claudia Kubicek, Judit Gervain, Gudrun Schwarzer, Helene Loevenbruck, Anne Vilain, Mathilde Fort, David Meary, Olivier Pascalis
Summary: The study reveals that from 9 months of age, language modulates the way faces are recognized. Additionally, infants at 9 and 12 months are more likely to recognize familiar faces in their native language environment.
