Dr Samuel Forbes' Outputs (5)

Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks (2023)
Journal Article
Wijeakumar, S., Forbes, S. H., Magnotta, V. A., Deoni, S., Jackson, K., Singh, V. P., Tiwari, M., Kumar, A., & Spencer, J. P. (2023). Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 2199-2211. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01725-3

Stunting is associated with poor long-term cognitive, academic and economic outcomes, yet the mechanisms through which stunting impacts cognition in early development remain unknown. In a first-ever neuroimaging study conducted on infants from rural... Read More about Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks.

Language exposure and brain myelination in early development (2023)
Journal Article
Fibla, L., Forbes, S. H., McCarthy, J., Mee, K., Magnotta, V., Deoni, S., …Spencer, J. P. (2023). Language exposure and brain myelination in early development. Journal of Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1034-22.2023

The language environment to which children are exposed has an impact on later language abilities as well as on brain development; however, it is unclear how early such impacts emerge. This study investigates the effects of children’s early language e... Read More about Language exposure and brain myelination in early development.

Colour perception changes with basic colour word comprehension (2023)
Journal Article
Forbes, S. H., & Plunkett, K. (2023). Colour perception changes with basic colour word comprehension. Developmental Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13406

Recent work has investigated the origin of infant colour categories, showing pre-linguistic infants categorise colour even in the absence of colour words. These infant categories are similar but not identical to adult categories, giving rise to an im... Read More about Colour perception changes with basic colour word comprehension.

Vocabulary and automatic attention: The relation between novel words and gaze dynamics in noun generalization (2023)
Journal Article
Bakopoulou, M., Lorenz, M. G., Forbes, S. H., Tremlin, R., Bates, J., & Samuelson, L. K. (2023). Vocabulary and automatic attention: The relation between novel words and gaze dynamics in noun generalization. Developmental Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13399

Words direct visual attention in infants, children, and adults, presumably by activating representations of referents that then direct attention to matching stimuli in the visual scene. Novel, unknown, words have also been shown to direct attention,... Read More about Vocabulary and automatic attention: The relation between novel words and gaze dynamics in noun generalization.

Poor air quality is associated with impaired visual cognition in the first two years of life: A longitudinal investigation (2023)
Journal Article
Spencer, J. P., Forbes, S. H., Naylor, S., Singh, V. P., Jackson, K., Deoni, S., …Kumar, A. (2023). Poor air quality is associated with impaired visual cognition in the first two years of life: A longitudinal investigation. eLife, 12, Article e83876. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.83876

Background: Poor air quality has been linked to cognitive deficits in children, but this relationship has not been examined in the first year of life when brain growth is at its peak. Methods: We measured in-home air quality focusing on particulate m... Read More about Poor air quality is associated with impaired visual cognition in the first two years of life: A longitudinal investigation.