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View article: Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks
Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks Open
Comparisons of visual cortex function across blind and sighted adults reveals effects of experience on human brain function. Since almost all research has been done with adults, little is known about the developmental origins of plasticity…
View article: The longitudinal development of intrinsic timescales in infancy and their relation to alpha brain rhythm
The longitudinal development of intrinsic timescales in infancy and their relation to alpha brain rhythm Open
Brain regions differ in the intrinsic timescales over which they integrate, shaping the information they encode; and these differences change with development. Here we used EEG to investigate how intrinsic timescales develop from infancy t…
View article: Different association patterns of emotion regulation and heart rate variability in older and younger adults
Different association patterns of emotion regulation and heart rate variability in older and younger adults Open
Several mental health conditions seen in older people are associated with impaired emotion regulation. Heart rate variability (HRV) may be an index of emotion regulation capacity, but it is unclear whether and how aging influences this ass…
View article: Helpless infants are learning a foundation model
Helpless infants are learning a foundation model Open
Humans have a protracted postnatal helplessness period, typically attributed to human-specific maternal constraints causing an early birth when the brain is highly immature. By aligning neurodevelopmental events across species, however, it…
View article: Exploration of factors affecting webcam-based automated gaze coding
Exploration of factors affecting webcam-based automated gaze coding Open
Online experiments have been transforming the field of behavioral research, enabling researchers to increase sample sizes, access diverse populations, lower the costs of data collection, and promote reproducibility. The field of developmen…
View article: The limitations of automatically generated curricula for continual learning
The limitations of automatically generated curricula for continual learning Open
In many applications, artificial neural networks are best trained for a task by following a curriculum, in which simpler concepts are learned before more complex ones. This curriculum can be hand-crafted by the engineer or optimised like o…
View article: Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks
Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks Open
Comparisons across adults with different sensory histories (blind vs. sighted) have uncovered effects of experience on human brain function. In people born blind visual cortices are responsive to non-visual tasks and show altered functiona…
View article: Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks
Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks Open
Comparisons of visual cortex function across blind and sighted adults reveals effects of experience on human brain function. Since almost all research has been done with adults, little is known about the developmental origins of plasticity…
View article: Consciousness in the cradle: on the emergence of infant experience
Consciousness in the cradle: on the emergence of infant experience Open
Although each of us was once a baby, infant consciousness remains mysterious and there is no received view about when, and in what form, consciousness first emerges. Some theorists defend a 'late-onset' view, suggesting that consciousness …
View article: Auditory areas are recruited for naturalistic visual meaning in early deaf people
Auditory areas are recruited for naturalistic visual meaning in early deaf people Open
Early deafness enhances responses of auditory cortices to non-auditory tasks, yet the nature of the reorganization is not well understood. Here, naturalistic stimuli were used to induce neural synchrony across early deaf and hearing indivi…
View article: Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks
Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks Open
Comparisons of visual cortex function across blind and sighted adults reveals effects of experience on human brain function. Since almost all research has been done with adults, little is known about the developmental origins of plasticity…
View article: Responsiveness variability during anaesthesia relates to inherent differences in brain structure and function of the frontoparietal networks
Responsiveness variability during anaesthesia relates to inherent differences in brain structure and function of the frontoparietal networks Open
Anaesthesia combined with functional neuroimaging provides a powerful approach for understanding the brain mechanisms of consciousness. Although propofol is used ubiquitously in clinical interventions that reversibly suppress consciousness…
View article: Anatomical correlates of category-selective visual regions have distinctive signatures of connectivity in neonates
Anatomical correlates of category-selective visual regions have distinctive signatures of connectivity in neonates Open
The ventral visual stream is shaped during development by innate proto-organization within the visual system, such as the strong input from the fovea to the fusiform face area. In adults, category-selective regions have distinct signatures…
View article: The development of intrinsic timescales: A comparison between the neonate and adult brain
The development of intrinsic timescales: A comparison between the neonate and adult brain Open
In human adults and other mammals, different brain regions have distinct intrinsic timescales over which they integrate information, from shorter in unimodal sensory-motor regions to longer in transmodal higher-order regions. These have be…
View article: Editorial: Empirical Research at a Distance: New Methods for Developmental Science
Editorial: Empirical Research at a Distance: New Methods for Developmental Science Open
EDITORIAL article Front. Psychol., 25 May 2022Sec. Developmental Psychology https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938995
View article: Online Testing in Developmental Science: A Guide to Design and Implementation
Online Testing in Developmental Science: A Guide to Design and Implementation Open
At present, most developmental psychology experiments use participants from a mere subsection of the world’s population. Moreover, like other fields of psychology, many studies in developmental psychology suffer from low statistical power …
View article: Typical and disrupted brain circuitry for conscious awareness in full-term and preterm infants
Typical and disrupted brain circuitry for conscious awareness in full-term and preterm infants Open
One of the great frontiers of consciousness science is understanding how early consciousness arises in the development of the human infant. The reciprocal relationship between the default mode network and fronto-parietal networks—the dorsa…
View article: The fronto‐parietal network is not a flexible hub during naturalistic cognition
The fronto‐parietal network is not a flexible hub during naturalistic cognition Open
The fronto‐parietal network (FPN) is crucial for cognitively demanding tasks as it selectively represents task‐relevant information and controls other brain regions. To implement these functions, it has been argued that it is a flexible hu…
View article: Naturalistic stimuli reveal a critical period in visual cortex development: Evidence from adult-onset blindness
Naturalistic stimuli reveal a critical period in visual cortex development: Evidence from adult-onset blindness Open
How do life experiences impact cortical function? In people who are born blind, the “visual” cortices are recruited for nonvisual tasks such as Braille reading and sound localization (e.g., Collignon et al., 2011; Sadato et al., 1996). The…