Hakuno, Y;
Pirazzoli, L;
Blasi, A;
Johnson, MH;
Lloyd-Fox, S;
(2018)
Optical imaging during toddlerhood: Brain responses during naturalistic social interactions.
Neurophotonics
, 5
(1)
, Article 011020. 10.1117/1.NPh.5.1.011020.
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Abstract
Despite the importance of our ability to interact and communicate with others, the early development of the social brain network remains poorly understood. We examined brain activity in 12- to 14-month-old infants while they were interacting live with an adult in two different naturalistic social scenarios (i.e., reading a picture book versus singing nursery rhymes with gestures), as compared to baseline (i.e., showing infants a toy without eye contact or speech). We used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) recorded over the right temporal lobe of infants to assess the role of the superior temporal sulcus-temporoparietal junction (STS-TPJ) region during naturalistic social interactions. We observed increased cortical activation in the STS-TPJ region to live social stimuli in both socially engaging conditions compared to baseline during real life interaction, with greater activation evident for the joint attention (reading book) condition relative to the social nursery rhymes. These results supported the view that the STS-TPJ region, engaged in the cortical social brain network, is already specialized in infants for processing social signals and is sensitive to communicative situations. This study also highlighted the potential of fNIRS for studying brain function in infants entering toddlerhood during live social interaction.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Optical imaging during toddlerhood: Brain responses during naturalistic social interactions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1117/1.NPh.5.1.011020 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.5.1.011020 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | social interactions, social signals, fNIRS, joint attention, superior temporal sulcus, temporoparietal junction |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074568 |
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