Author:
Georgieva Stanimira,Lester Suzannah,Yilmaz Meryem Nazli,Wass Sam,Leongi Victoria
Abstract
ABSTRACTElectroencephalography (EEG) is perhaps the most widely used brain-imaging technique for paediatric populations. However, EEG signals are prone to distortion by motion. Compared to adults, infants’ motion is both more frequent and less stereotypical yet motion effects on the infant EEG signal are largely undocumented. Here, we present a systematic assessment of naturalistic motion effects on the infant and adult EEG signal. In Study 1, we documented the prevalence of 27 naturally occurring facial and body motions by video-coding five mother-infant pairs during naturalistic play. In Study 2, we elicited a subset of the most common facial, limb and postural motions from one adult and one infant actor while their EEG was recorded. In Study 3, we recorded EEG signals from a larger group of 12 infants whilst they produced the same motions spontaneously. Our findings from Study 2 suggested that adult movements mainly generated increases in spectral power relative to resting state, primarily at peripheral sites and in delta and high-beta frequency bands. In infants, both elicited motions (N=1, Study 2) and spontaneously-occurring motions (N=12, Study 3) produced decreases in theta, alpha and beta power over central regions and increased beta/delta power at peripheral sites. We also observed that infants’ jaw and upper limb movements generated more pronounced EEG artifacts than lower limb movements. It is intended that this work will inform future development of methods for addressing EEG motion-related artifacts and support wider use of naturalistic paradigms in social and developmental neuroscience.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cited by
4 articles.
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