Development of sensorimotor beta bursts in human infants
Last updated on
Jan 29, 2025

This project uses EEG to explore the existence of beta bursts (i.e. functional activity related to movement) in the infant brain, and how these may develop over time.
EEG
infant
oscillations
beta bursts
power spectral density
lagged coherence
sensorimotor cortex
reaching and grasping
rhythmicity
periodic activity
spectral parameterization
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Publications
Analysis of neural activity in different frequency bands is ubiquitous in systems and cognitive neuroscience. Recent analytical …
Siqi Zhang,
Maciej J Szul,
Sotirios Papadopoulos,
Alice Massera,
Holly Rayson,
James J Bonaiuto
Beta activity is thought to play a critical role in sensorimotor processes. However, little is known about how activity in this …
Holly Rayson,
Maciej J Szul,
Perla El-Khoueiry,
Ranjan Debnath,
Marine Gautier-Martins,
Pier F Ferrari,
Nathan Fox,
James J Bonaiuto
Developmental EEG research often involves analyzing signals within various frequency bands, based on the assumption that these signals …
Holly Rayson,
Ranjan Debnath,
Sanaz Alavizadeh,
Nathan Fox,
Pier F Ferrari,
James J Bonaiuto