The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity

SV Troller-Renfree, MA Costanzo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Early childhood poverty is a risk factor for lower school achievement, reduced earnings, and
poorer health, and has been associated with differences in brain structure and function …

Heterogeneity in pediatric resting EEG data processing and analysis: A state of the field

SV Troller‐Renfree, S Morales, GA Buzzell… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Developmental, resting electroencephalography (EEG) is gaining rapid popularity with
implementation in large‐scale studies as well as a recent WHO report naming resting EEG …

[HTML][HTML] Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research

E Tan, SV Troller-Renfree, S Morales… - Developmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The theta band is one of the most prominent frequency bands in the
electroencephalography (EEG) power spectrum and presents an interesting paradox: while …

Associations between maternal stress and infant resting brain activity among families residing in poverty in the US

SV Troller-Renfree, JF Sperber, ER Hart… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Growing evidence suggests that maternal experiences of stress shape children's functional
brain activity in the first years of life. Individuals living in poverty are more likely to …

[HTML][HTML] Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years

E Tan, A Tang, R Debnath, KL Humphreys… - Developmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Resting brain activity has been widely used as an index of brain development in
neuroscience and clinical research. However, it remains unclear whether early differences …

Ultra‐Low‐Field Paediatric MRI in Low‐and Middle‐Income Countries: Super‐Resolution Using a Multi‐Orientation U‐Net

L Baljer, Y Zhang, NJ Bourke, KA Donald… - Human Brain …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to the high cost of modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, their use in
clinical care and neurodevelopmental research is limited to hospitals and universities in …

Linking caregiving quality during infancy to brain activity in early childhood and later executive function

M Wade, V Parker, A Tang, NA Fox… - Developmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There is no relationship more vital than the one a child shares with their primary caregivers
early in development. Yet many children worldwide are raised in settings that lack the …

Exploration of auditory statistical learning, socioeconomic status, and language outcomes in Bangladeshi children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.

EF Sullivan, L Pirazzoli, JE Richards… - Developmental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Neural correlates of inhibitory control and associations with cognitive outcomes in Bangladeshi children exposed to early adversities

EF Sullivan, W Xie, S Conte, JE Richards… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is strong support for the view that children growing up in low‐income homes typically
evince poorer performance on tests of inhibitory control compared to those growing up in …

The importance of decomposing periodic and aperiodic EEG signals for assessment of brain function in a global context

T Del Bianco, R Haartsen, L Mason… - Developmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Measures of early neuro‐cognitive development that are suitable for use in low‐resource
settings are needed to enable studies of the effects of early adversity on the developing …