Research Articles

Macrae, E., Milosavljevic, B., Katus, L., Mason, L., Amadó, M. P., Rozhko, M., de Haan, M., Elwell, C. E., Moore, S. E., Lloyd-Fox, S. The BRIGHT Project Team, Crespo-Llado, M. M., Taylor, D., & Yelland, S. (2024). Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet-based measure. Infancy, 125. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12599

Lloyd-Fox, S, McCann, S, Milosavljevic, B, Katus, L, Blasi, A, Bulgarelli, C, Crespo-Llado, M, Ghillia, G, Fadera, T, Mbye, E, Mason, L, Njai, F, Njie, O, Perapoch-Amado, M, Rozhko, M, Sosseh, F, Saidykhan, M, Touray, E, Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E. and The BRIGHT Study Team The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project: Longitudinal cohort study protocol [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Gates Open Res 2023, 7:126 https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.14795.1

Katus, L., Crespo-Llado, M.M., Milosavljevic, B., Saidykhan, M., Njie, O., Fadera, T.,  McCann, S., Acolatse, L., Perapoch Amadó, M., Rozhko, M., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., Lloyd-Fox, S. (2023). It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia. Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101913

McCann, S., Mason, L., Milosavljevic, B., Mbye, E., Touray, E., Colley, A., Johnson, W., Lloyd-Fox, S., Elwell, C.E., Moore, S.E. & The BRIGHT Study Team (2023). Iron status in early infancy is associated with cognitive development up to pre-school age in rural Gambia. PLOS Global Public Healthhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002531 

Katus, L., Blasi, A., McCann, S., Mason, L., Mbye, E., Touray, E., Ceesay, M., de Haan, M., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., Lloyd-Fox, S., & The BRIGHT Study Team (2023). Longitudinal fNIRS and EEG metrics of habituation and novelty detection are correlated in 1-18-month-old infantsNeuroimage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120153

Milosavljevic, B., Cook, C.J., Fadera, T., Ghillia, G., Howard, S.J., Makaula, H., Mbye, E., McCann, S., Merkley, R., Mshudulu, M., Saidykhan, M., Touray, E., Tshetu, N., Elwell, C., Moore, S.E., Scerif, G., Draper, C.E., & Lloyd-Fox, S. (2023). Executive functioning skills and their environmental predictors among pre-school aged children in South Africa and The GambiaDevelopmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13407

Katus, L., Milosavljevic, B., Rozhko, M., McCann, S., Mason, L., Mbye, E., Touray, E., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., Lloyd-Fox, S., de Haan, M., & The BRIGHT Study Team (2022). Neural marker of habituation at 5 months of age associated with deferred imitation performance at 12 months: A longitudinal study in the UK and The Gambia.  Childrenhttps://doi.org/10.3390/children9070988

Collins-Jones, L.H., Cooper, R.J., Bulgarelli, C., Blasi, A., Katus, L., McCann, S., Mason, L., Mbye, E., Touray, E., Ceesay, M., Moore, S.E., Lloyd-Fox, S., Elwell, C.E., & The BRIGHT Study Team, (2021). Longitudinal infant fNIRS channel-space analyses are robust to variability parameters at the group-level: An image reconstruction investigation. Neuroimagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118068

Katus, L., Mason, L., Milosavljevic, B., McCann, S., Rozhko, M., Moore, S. E., … & Prentice, A. (2020). ERP markers are associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes in 1–5 month old infants in rural Africa and the UK. NeuroImagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116591

Katus, L., Hayes, N. J., McCann, S., Mason, L., Blasi, A.,  Darboe, M. K., de Haan, M., Moore, S.E., Lloyd-Fox, S., Elwell, C.E. (2019) Implementing neuroimaging and eye tracking methods to assess neurocognitive development of young infants in low- and middle-income countries. Gates Open Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.12951.1

Blasi, A., Lloyd-Fox, S., Katus, L., Elwell, C.E. (2019). fNIRS for Tracking Brain Development in the Context of Global Health Projects. Photonics. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics6030089

Lloyd-Fox S, Blasi A, McCann S, Rozhko, M., Katus, L., Mason, L., Austin, T., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., & The BRIGHT Project Team (2019). Habituation and novelty detection fNIRS brain responses in 5- and 8-month-old infants: The Gambia and UK. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12817

Milosavljevic, B., Vellekoop, P., Maris, H.,Halliday, D., Drammeh, S., Sanyang, L., Darboe, M.K., Elwell, C., Moore, S.E., & Lloyd-Fox, S. (2019). Adaptation of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning for use among infants aged 5- to 24-months in rural Gambia. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12808

Lloyd-Fox, S., Begus, K., Halliday, D., Pirazzoli, L., Blasi, A., Papademetriou, M., Darboe, M.K., Prentice, A.M., Johnson, M.H., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E. (2017). Cortical specialisation to social stimuli from the first days to the second year of life: A rural Gambian cohort. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2016.11.005

Begus, K., Lloyd-Fox, S., Halliday, D., Papademetriou, M., Darboe, M. K., Prentice, A. M., Moore, S. E & Elwell, C. E. (2016). Using fNIRS to study working memory in infants in rural Africa. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42135309.pdf

Lloyd-Fox, S., Papademetriou, M., Darboe, M. K., Everdell, N. L., Prentice, A. M., Moore, S. E., & Elwell, C. E. (2014). Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to assess cognitive function in infants in rural Africa. Nature Scientific Report. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep04740