Test-retest reliability of infant event related potentials evoked by faces

Munsters, N.M.; Ravenswaaij, Heleen van; Boomen, Carlijn van den; Kemner, Chantal

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.03.030

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“…This is taken to suggest that children rely on different frequency information and might need more detailed feature-focused information than adults when processing fearful facial expressions. This developmental view has been confirmed by a recent ERP study with 9-to-10-month-old infants showing that infants at this age also predominantly use HSF to discriminate happy, fearful and neutral facial expressions (Munsters et al, 2017 ). Specifically, this study revealed differential processing of emotional facial expressions in response to HSF images but not for LSF images.…”

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“…However, emotion discrimination from faces, in particular involving fearful faces, typically affects additional ERP components and can be reliably observed already in infants at a younger age (Peltola et al, 2009 , 2013 ) than in Munsters et al ( 2017 ) study, who investigated emotion processing in 9- to 10-month-old infants. Moreover, spatial frequency filtering might need to be adjusted to take into account the visual acuity at the age under investigation (Dobkins and Harms, 2014 ), which had not been done in the prior study with infants that used spatial frequency cut-offs typically used with adults (Munsters et al, 2016 ).…”

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“…While studies in adults typically assume a range of 6–24 cycles/image as the preferred range for face processing, and accordingly define HSF as >24 cycles/image and LSF as <6 cycles/image (Vuilleumier et al, 2003 ; Pourtois et al, 2005 ), this does not necessarily correspond to the visual acuity in infants and young children. While Munsters et al ( 2017 ), who investigated the role of spatial frequencies in 9–10 month-olds, used 2 cycles/° as an upper boundary for their LSF images and 6 cycles/° as a lower boundary for their HSF images (Munsters et al, 2017 ), which corresponds to the frequency ranges previously used in adults (Munsters et al, 2016 ), other studies on the role of spatial frequency content in face processing in a developmental population have often adapted the frequency ranges to the assumed visual acuity at a given age. When adjusting the spatial frequencies contained in the stimulus material to the visual acuity of infants, it has been found that newborns process facial information primarily via spatial frequencies below 0.5 cycles/° (equivalent to 12 cycles/image; de Heering et al, 2008 ).…”

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“…Specifically, this study revealed differential processing of emotional facial expressions in response to HSF images but not for LSF images. Munsters et al ( 2017 ) observed emotion-related differences for face-sensitive ERP components (N290/P400 complex) seen as precursors of the adult N170, reflecting the structural encoding of faces (Eimer, 2000 ; Rossion, 2014 ). Together, these two developmental ERP studies point to the notion that in infants and children HSF information is needed for facial emotion processing to occur.…”

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Exploring the Role of Spatial Frequency Information during Neural Emotion Processing in Human Infants

Jessen

Großmann

2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Enhanced attention to fear expressions in adults is primarily driven by information from low as opposed to high spatial frequencies contained in faces. However, little is known about the role of spatial frequency information in emotion processing during infancy. In the present study, we examined the role of low compared to high spatial frequencies in the processing of happy and fearful facial expressions by using filtered face stimuli and measuring event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in 7-month-old infants (N = 26). Our results revealed that infants’ brains discriminated between emotional facial expressions containing high but not between expressions containing low spatial frequencies. Specifically, happy faces containing high spatial frequencies elicited a smaller Nc amplitude than fearful faces containing high spatial frequencies and happy and fearful faces containing low spatial frequencies. Our results demonstrate that already in infancy spatial frequency content influences the processing of facial emotions. Furthermore, we observed that fearful facial expressions elicited a comparable Nc response for high and low spatial frequencies, suggesting a robust detection of fearful faces irrespective of spatial frequency content, whereas the detection of happy facial expressions was contingent upon frequency content. In summary, these data provide new insights into the neural processing of facial emotions in early development by highlighting the differential role played by spatial frequencies in the detection of fear and happiness.

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Exploring the Role of Spatial Frequency Information during Neural Emotion Processing in Human Infants

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Großmann

2017

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“…In response to the replication crisis in cognitive sciences, cognitive neuroscientists have begun to show a growing interest in the test-retest reliability of their paradigms and brain measures, and several recent studies have assessed the test-retest reliability of EEG measurements in infants. Munsters et al (2019) reported the test-retest reliability of ERPs evoked by neutral, fearful and happy faces presented in low or high-frequency conditions to 9-10 month-old infants (N=31), who were tested twice within two weeks. Substantial reliability was observed for the amplitude of the earliest N290 component (Intraclass correlation (ICC)=0.76), and moderate reliability was observed for the amplitude of components P400 (ICC=0.58) and Nc (ICC=0.57) (see Figure 8A).…”

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14 challenges and their solutions for conducting social neuroscience and longitudinal EEG research with infants

Noreika¹,

Georgieva²,

Wass³

et al. 2019

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The use of electroencephalography (EEG) to study infant brain development is a growing trend. In addition to classical longitudinal designs that study the development of the neural, cognitive and behavioural function, new areas of EEG application are emerging, such as novel social neuroscience paradigms using dual infant-adult EEG recordings. However, most of the experimental designs, analysis methods, as well as EEG hardware were originally developed for single-person adult research. When applied to the study of infant development, adult-based solutions often pose unique problems that may go unrecognised. Here, we identify 14 challenges that infant EEG researchers may encounter when designing new experiments, collecting data, and conducting data analysis. Challenges related to the experimental design are: (1) small sample size and data attrition, and (2) varying arousal in younger infants. Challenges related to data acquisition are: (3) determining the optimal location for reference and ground electrodes, (4) control of impedance when testing with the high-density sponge electrode nets, (5) poor fit of standard EEG caps to the varying infant head shapes, and (6) ensuring a high degree of temporal synchronisation between amplifiers and recording devices during dual-EEG acquisition. Challenges related to the analysis of longitudinal and social neuroscience datasets are: (7) developmental changes in head anatomy, (8) prevalence and diversity of infant myogenic artefacts, (9) a lack of stereotypical topography of eye movements needed for the ICA-based data cleaning, (10) and relatively high inter-individual variability of EEG responses in younger cohorts. Additional challenges for the analysis of dual EEG data are: (11) developmental shifts in canonical EEG rhythms and difficulties in differentiating true inter-personal synchrony from spurious synchrony due to (12) common intrinsic properties of the signal and (13) shared external perturbation. Finally, (14) there is a lack of test-retest reliability studies of infant EEG. We describe each of these challenges and suggest possible solutions. While we focus specifically on the social neuroscience and longitudinal research, many of the issues we raise are relevant for all fields of infant EEG research.

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Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood

Haartsen

Mason

Braithwaite

et al. 2021

Developmental Psychobiology

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Electroencephalography (EEG) has substantial potential value for examining individual differences during early development. Current challenges in developmental EEG research include high dropout rates and low trial numbers, which may in part be due to passive stimulus presentation. Comparability is challenged by idiosyncratic processing pipelines. We present a novel toolbox ("Braintools") that uses gaze-contingent stimulus presentation and an automated processing pipeline suitable for measuring visual processing through low-density EEG recordings in the field. We tested the feasibility of this toolbox in 61 2.5-to 4-year olds, and computed test-retest reliability (1to 2-week interval) of event-related potentials (ERP) associated with visual (P1) and face processing (N290, P400). Feasibility was good, with 52 toddlers providing some EEG data at the first session. Reliability values for ERP features were moderate when derived from 20 trials; this would allow inclusion of 79% of the 61 toddlers for the P1 and 82% for the N290 and P400. P1 amplitude/latency were more reliable across sessions than for the N290 and P400. Amplitudes were generally more reliable than latencies. Automated and standardized solutions to collection and analysis of event-related EEG data would allow efficient application in large-scale global health studies, opening significant potential for examining individual differences in development. K E Y W O R D S child, electroencephalography, evoked potentials, eye-tracking technology, human development, methods, preschool 1 INTRODUCTION The human brain develops rapidly during the first 5 years of postnatal life. During this relatively short window of development, a range of cognitive and motor abilities develop and mature from infancy through toddlerhood to preschool (Johnson & De Haan, 2015). Similarly, brain structure and functioning undergo substantial changes (Grayson & Fair, This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Test-retest reliability of infant event related potentials evoked by faces

Cited by 33 publications

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Exploring the Role of Spatial Frequency Information during Neural Emotion Processing in Human Infants

Exploring the Role of Spatial Frequency Information during Neural Emotion Processing in Human Infants

14 challenges and their solutions for conducting social neuroscience and longitudinal EEG research with infants

Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood

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