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THE DEVELOPING BRAIN AND MIND

Measuring the development of connections in the infant brain in the first year, using diffusion-weighted and functional connectivity MRI, and relating this to the development of brain function.
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We have recently published a number of papers investigating the emergence of cognition
  • A review in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Recruit and test infants online with Mechanical Turk!
  • Measuring selectivity of infants at 3 and 9 months to the features of complex sounds
And, we have developed many methods for measuring brain function.
  • Methodological challenges for longitudinal fMRI in infants
  • Optimizing Stimulation and Analysis Protocols for Neonatal fMRI
  • Differences in the spatial and temporal patterns of head motion during MRI of adults and infants
  • Inter-subject regression, a new way to combine traditional fMRI analysis with model-free fMRI analysis
 
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​With clinical collaborators, we are working to understand how brain function is disrupted by brain injury around the time of birth.
  • Predicting motor impairments from functional connectivity in brain networks at birth
  • Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Detect Preserved Function in a Preterm Infant with Brain Injury
  • Affordable Cranial Ultrasonography in East African Neonatal Intensive Care Units


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  • Brainstem shape is affected by clinical course in the neonatal intensive care unit.​
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Using multi-voxel pattern analysis to characterize the neural representation of "silent" thoughts, such as things we are remembering or imagining.
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Neuroscience at the Cusack lab

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