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2-043 - Objective measures of early development in low- and middle-income countries: EEG, Eye-tracking, fNIRS
Fri, March 22, 8:00 to 9:30am, Hilton Baltimore, Floor: Level 2, Key 4Session Type: Paper Symposium
Integrative Statement
The first 1000 days of life (from conception to 2 years) are a critical window in determining the effect of exposure to socio-economic and health challenges (such as under nutrition or poverty) on early brain development. One third of children living in low- and middle-income countries, where these challenges can be prevalent, fail to reach their developmental milestones. The human brain is highly susceptible to input from the immediate environment, and these early influences can be determinant of outcome in later childhood and adulthood. A recent shift in global health research has been to move existing research lab-based measures, often primarily used in high income settings, outside of the lab to better reach socially disadvantaged populations.
This symposium will discuss the application of three objective measures of behaviour and brain development - electroencephalography (EEG), eye-tracking and functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Each discussant will share their distinct perspective and research findings from four global health research projects. The first talk will discuss findings from an auditory oddball EEG paradigm with 1- and 5-month-old infants in rural Gambia. The second talk will discuss two eye-tracking tasks used to assess attention, habituation and novelty detection in 5- to 10-month old’s in rural Malawi. The third talk will discuss findings from a social selectivity fNIRS paradigm with 6- and 36- month old infants and toddlers in urban Bangladesh. Finally, the fourth talk will discuss the application of an early language processing eye-tracking task with 16-24 month old toddlers in rural India.
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Electrophysiological Markers of Early Infant Development: an ERP study in the UK and rural Gambia. - Presenting Author: Laura Kischkel, University College Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health; Non-Presenting Author: Maria Rozhko, University College London; Non-Presenting Author: Samantha McCann, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Non-Presenting Author: Saikou Drammeh, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Non-Presenting Author: Ebrima M'bye, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Non-Presenting Author: Luke Mason, Birkbeck, University of London; Non-Presenting Author: Clare E Elwell, University College London; Non-Presenting Author: Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Birkbeck, University of London; Non-Presenting Author: Michelle de Haan, University College Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Sensitivity of eye-tracking measures to child nutritional status and home environment in rural Malawi - Presenting Author: Elizabeth Prado, University of California, Davis; Non-Presenting Author: Michaela Carol DeBolt, University of California, Davis; Non-Presenting Author: Bess L Caswell, University of California, Davis; Non-Presenting Author: Matthews George, University of Malawi College of Medicine; Non-Presenting Author: Ken Maleta, University of Malawi College of Medicine; Non-Presenting Author: Christine P Stewart, University of California Davis; Non-Presenting Author: Shannon Ross-Sheehy, University of Tennesee, Knoxville; Non-Presenting Author: Lisa Oakes, University of California, Davis
Using fNIRS to assess cognition in urban Bangladeshi infants and toddlers - Presenting Author: Katherine Perdue, Harvard Medical School; Non-Presenting Author: Sarah K.G. Jensen, Boston Children's Hospital; Non-Presenting Author: Swapna Kumar, Boston Children's Hospital; Non-Presenting Author: John Richards, University of South Carolina; Non-Presenting Author: Shahria Hafiz Kakon, icddrb; Non-Presenting Author: Rashidul Haque, ICDDR; Non-Presenting Author: William A. Petri, University of Virginia; Non-Presenting Author: Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Birkbeck, University of London; Non-Presenting Author: Clare E Elwell, University College London; Non-Presenting Author: Charles A. Nelson, Harvard Medical School
Early Language Processing and Brain Development: A Comparative Study Between the UK and India - Presenting Author: Laia Fibla Reixachs, University of East Anglia; Non-Presenting Author: John Spencer, University of East Anglia; Non-Presenting Author: Larissa K Samuelson, University of East Anglia