Infancy is a critical period in development marked by the greatest gains in development across all domains. The infant brain grows and matures rapidly in the first few years. These projects focus on examining the associations among environment, infant affect, and infant brain development across several modalities.
The infant emotional brain
In this project, we are examining the relation between infant affective experience and infant resting cerebral blood flow (collected via pseudocontinuous ASL), functional networks, and other brain measures.
Amar submitted the preliminary analysis of this project as a poster at the 2018 meeting for the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society.
Find the repository for ASL here and resting state fMRI here on GitHub!
Associated publications:
Camacho, M.C., King, L.S., Ojha, A., Sisk, L.M., Garcia, C.M., Cichocki, A.C., Humphreys, K.L., Gotlib, I.H. (2019). Cerebral Blood Flow in 5- to 8-Month-Olds: Regional Tissue Maturity is Associated with Infant Affect. Developmental Science. http://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12928 pdf
Environmental influences on infant neurodevelopment
This project seeks to how early environments may influence infant affective neurodevelopment.
Associated publications:
Humphreys, K.L., Camacho, M.C., Roth, M.C., & Estes, E.C. (2020). Prenatal stress exposure and multimodal assessment of amygdala-medial prefrontal cortex connectivity in infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 46, 100877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100877 pdf
King, L.S., Camacho, M.C., Montez, D.F., Humphreys, K.L., & Gotlib, I.H. (2021). Naturalistic language input is associated with resting-state functional connectivity in infancy. Journal of Neuroscience. 41 (3) 424-434. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0779-20.2020 pdf
