Re-imagining fMRI for awake behaving infants

C. T. Ellis; L. J. Skalaban; T. S. Yates; V. R. Bejjanki; N. I. Córdova; N. B. Turk-Browne

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18286-y

Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Re-imagining fMRI for awake behaving infants

C. T. Ellis,
L. J. Skalaban,
T. S. Yates,
V. R. Bejjanki,
N. I. Córdova,
N. B. Turk-Browne

Affiliations

C. T. Ellis: Department of Psychology, Yale University
L. J. Skalaban: Department of Psychology, Yale University
T. S. Yates: Department of Psychology, Yale University
V. R. Bejjanki: Department of Psychology, Hamilton College
N. I. Córdova: Department of Psychology, Yale University
N. B. Turk-Browne: Department of Psychology, Yale University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18286-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Using fMRI on awake infants could help us understand the contents of a baby’s mind, long before they can speak. Here, the authors report advances in how to collect, preprocess, and analyze task-based fMRI data from infants, and they share the resulting datasets and software.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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