Advanced EEG and MRI Measurements to Study the Functional Development of the Newborn Brain

In this chapter we review the methodological progress that has recently been made for studying brain development in infants using noninvasive techniques. In particular, we focus on methodological platforms based on electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Key aspects of experimental setup, data acquisition, data preprocessing, and analysis are described and discussed with emphasis on recordings performed on the infant brain. The measurement and estimation of large-scale brain network connectivity using fMRI and EEG has become an important tool to study brain development. To this end, we describe central findings regarding the large-scale brain network architecture of the infant brain. Further, data analysis strategies pertaining to the investigation brain connectivity are described together with a discussion of their advantages and pitfalls.
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