Sagi Jaffe‐Dax

Neural Evidence of Early Sensitivity to Text in Pre-reading Toddlers

The paper investigates neural sensitivity to text in pre-reading toddlers using fNIRS and finds distinct brain activity patterns for text versus non-text stimuli.

Parents' neural dynamics in response to their children's speech

This study uses fNIRS to show that parents' brains respond differently to their children's speech based on its communicative complexity, suggesting feedback plays a role in language development.

The Adaptive Brain Across Development: Age Related Changes in Cortical Adaptation

The paper examines age-related changes in cortical adaptation using fNIRS across infants, children, and adults, finding faster recovery in infants and developmental progression in functional connectivity.

Sequence learning attenuates cortical responses in both frontal and perceptual cortices in early infancy

This study shows that sequential learning in infants involves frontal lobe modulation and corresponding reduced responses in posterior perceptual cortices to predictable stimuli.

STORM-Net: Simple and Timely Optode Registration Method for Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS)

STORM-Net provides a fast, automatic, and hardware-free method for registering fNIRS optodes to the scalp, validated on adults and infants with comparable accuracy to existing methods.

Video-based motion-resilient reconstruction of 3D position for fNIRS and EEG head mounted probes

This paper introduces a video-based method to estimate probe positions on the scalp for EEG and fNIRS, showing it is reliable, fast, and suitable for infants.

Widespread shorter cortical adaptation in dyslexia

The paper investigates cortical adaptation dynamics in dyslexia using fMRI, finding widespread faster decay of adaptation effects, particularly in the left superior temporal lobe.

Shorter neural adaptation to sounds accounts for dyslexics’ abnormal perceptual and reading dynamics

This study shows dyslexics have faster neural adaptation to sounds, leading to noisier predictions and longer reading times.