Studies of cortical function in the awake infant are extremely challenging to undertake with
traditional neuroimaging approaches. Partly in response to this challenge, functional near …

Cortical areas in the ventral visual pathway become selectively tuned towards the
processing of faces compared to non-face stimuli beginning around 3 months of age and …

There is a growing need to understand the global impact of poverty on early brain and
behavioural development, particularly with regard to key cognitive processes that emerge in …

The first years of life are a sensitive period of rapid neural and immune system development
vulnerable to the impact of adverse experiences. Several studies support inflammation as a …

Confusional arousal is the milder expression of a family of disorders known as Disorders of
Arousal (DOA) from non-REM sleep. These disorders are characterized by recurrent …

Tracking the connectivity of the developing brain from infancy through childhood is an area
of increasing research interest, and fNIRS provides an ideal method for studying the infant …

The first 1000 days from conception to two-years of age are a critical period in brain
development, and there is an increasing drive for developing technologies to help advance …

Auditory statistical learning, or the ability to detect statistical regularities in continuously
presented stimuli, is thought to be one element that underlies language acquisition. Prior …

Visual working memory (VWM) is a central cognitive system used to compare views of the
world and detect changes in the local environment. This system undergoes dramatic …

Distractor suppression allows us to remain on-task in the presence of distractions by filtering
task-irrelevant information from ongoing cognitive processing and responding …