Article
Geology
Guo Jiang, Kefa Zhou, Jinlin Wang, Guoqing Sun, Shichao Cui, Tao Chen, Shuguang Zhou, Yong Bai, Xi Chen
Summary: Rock geochemistry plays a crucial role in mineral resource exploration. This study collected rock samples and used chemical analysis and spectral analysis to estimate the Cu content. The results show that fractional-order derivatives can better highlight spectral details, and combining fractional-order derivatives with a random forest model performs best for the full sample data.
ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Amanda Saksida, Ana Flo, Bruno Guedes, Marina Nespor, Marcela Pena Garay
Summary: Research has shown that language learners can extract basic word order structure from prosodic regularities in a language, but when learning a non-native language, repeated exposure to the relevant rhythmic structure is necessary for learning new words.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Charlotte Delrue, Sander De Bruyne, Marijn M. Speeckaert
Summary: Traditional renal biomarkers are insensitive for early detection of kidney disease. Infrared spectroscopy offers a label-free and non-destructive method for quick and inexpensive diagnosis of kidney disorders. This review provides an overview of the applications of near- and mid-infrared spectroscopy in patients with acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
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
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
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
Chemistry, Applied
Arian Amirvaresi, Nastaran Nikounezhad, Maryam Amirahmadi, Bahram Daraei, Hadi Parastar
Summary: The study found that NIR spectroscopy is more effective than MIR in predicting the origin of saffron samples, while PLS-DA shows high accuracy in detecting adulterants, with NIR demonstrating excellent performance in estimating the level of adulteration.
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
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)
Review
Psychiatry
Wan-Chun Su, Rebekah Colacot, Nora Ahmed, Thien Nguyen, Tony George, Amir Gandjbakhche
Summary: Understanding the neurodevelopmental trajectories of infants and children is crucial for early identification of disorders, understanding underlying mechanisms, and predicting outcomes. Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising neuroimaging tool for studying these trajectories. A systematic review of 84 original fNIRS studies showed an age-related increase in network integration and segregation, interhemispheric connectivity, leftward asymmetry, and differences in resting-state oscillation. Typically developing children exhibited more localized and specialized activation when processing sensory information. Children with developmental disorders showed different trajectories, such as initial overconnectivity followed by underconnectivity in autism spectrum disorder infants, and lower prefrontal cortex activation in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder children. The review supports the use of fNIRS for tracking neurodevelopment and highlights the need for longitudinal studies to validate trajectories and explore its potential for early identification and intervention tracking.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Mika Ishigaki, Atsushi Ito, Risa Hara, Shun-ichi Miyazaki, Kodai Murayama, Keisuke Yoshikiyo, Tatsuyuki Yamamoto, Yukihiro Ozaki
Summary: This study successfully developed a method of monitoring the increasing number of amide bonds with the elongation of peptide chain length using NIR spectroscopy. By evaluating the dehydration occurring between amino acids and constructing a calibration model with a high determination coefficient, the study provided valuable insights for analyzing amide bonds in the NIR spectra of proteins, polyamino acids, polypeptides, and polyamides.
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
(2021)
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
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Borja Blanco, Monika Molnar, Manuel Carreiras, Cesar Caballero-Gaudes
Summary: Neuroimaging studies measuring spontaneous brain activity provide valuable information about functional organization and development. This project investigated the influence of bilingualism on functional brain network development in 4-month-old infants.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Maria Clemencia Ortiz Barajas, Ramon Guevara, Judit Gervain
Summary: This study found that newborns are able to track the speech envelope of familiar and unfamiliar languages in terms of both amplitude and phase, while language familiarity modulates the ability to track amplitude by 6 months. Phase tracking, however, continues to be universal regardless of language familiarity.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Meryem A. Yucel, Alexander Luhmann, Felix Scholkmann, Judit Gervain, Ippeita Dan, Hasan Ayaz, David Boas, Robert J. Cooper, Joseph Culver, Clare E. Elwell, Adam Eggebrecht, Maria A. Franceschini, Christophe Grova, Fumitaka Homae, Frederic Lesage, Hellmuth Obrig, Ilias Tachtsidis, Sungho Tak, Yunjie Tong, Alessandro Torricelli, Heidrun Wabnitz, Martin Wolf
Summary: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has been widely used in neuroscience over the past 40 years, with a focus on establishing best practices to enhance the reliability and repeatability of studies.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Jessica Gemignani, Judit Gervain
Summary: Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an important neuroimaging technique in cognitive developmental neuroscience, but there is no general consensus on best pre-processing practices. Research found that by comparing five carefully selected pipelines, the system's robustness against noise can be improved, but issues like reduced HRF amplitude may arise during the processing.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Irene de la Cruz-Pavia, Judit Gervain
Summary: From birth, infants show a robust capacity for learning repetition-based rules from speech, as well as the ability to extract repetition-based structures from various stimuli. By six months of age, infants can also distinctly encode the notion of difference in speech stimuli.
CURRENT OPINION IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2021)
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
Iris Berent, Irene De la Cruz-Pavia, Diane Brentari, Judit Gervain
Summary: Research shows that despite having no prior exposure to sign language, six-month-old infants are able to learn rules from dynamic linguistic signs and their neural response to linguistic signs is similar to that of speech stimuli. This indicates that infants are language-ready and able to differentiate and learn from various linguistic stimuli.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(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
Neurosciences
Giulia Vigna, Enrico Ghidoni, Francesca Burgio, Laura Danesin, Damiano Angelini, Silvia Benavides-Varela, Carlo Semenza
Summary: Numerical abilities are crucial in daily life, and a deficit in numerical skills can have a significant impact. This study found that young adults with Developmental Dyscalculia (DD) had poorer arithmetic skills in both formal and informal settings, particularly in time and measure estimation as well as real-world numerical tasks involving money usage. However, their everyday tasks regarding distance estimation were preserved. The assessment also revealed that adults with DD were aware of their numerical difficulties, which often related to emotional problems and negatively affected their academic and occupational decisions. This highlights the importance of designing innovative interventions and age-appropriate training to support the numerical skills, social, and emotional well-being of adults with DD.
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)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Biomedical
Jessica Gemignani, Judit Gervain
Summary: The study describes the workflow of generating synthetic data and provides tools for researchers to objectively validate and compare data analysis procedures using a large and diversified ground-truth fNIRS dataset.
2021 43RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
(2021)