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  1. The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project: Longitudinal cohort study protocol

    Article • Gates Open Research, September 2024, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  2. Trajectories of brain and behaviour development in the womb, at birth and through infancy

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  3. Cortical responses to social stimuli in infants at elevated likelihood of ASD and/or ADHD: A prospective cross-condition fNIRS study

    Article • Cortex, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  4. Iron status in early infancy is associated with trajectories of cognitive development up to pre-school age in rural Gambia

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, November 2023, PLOS

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  5. The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project: Longitudinal cohort study protocol

    Article • Gates Open Research, October 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  6. Infant sleep predicts trajectories of social attention and later autism traits

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, March 2023, Wiley

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  7. Executive functions in infancy: Measurement using a novel tablet task and exploration of longitudinal attentional and cognitive predictors

    Article • December 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  8. Modulation of EEG theta by naturalistic social content is not altered in infants with family history of autism

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  9. Mapping human social brain specialisation beyond the neuron using multimodal imaging in human infants

    Article • November 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  10. Neuronal gating of tactile input and sleep in 10-month-old infants at typical and elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  11. Association of psychosocial adversity and social information processing in children raised in a low-resource setting: an fNIRS study

    Article • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  12. 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

    Article • Children, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  13. COVID-19 in the context of pregnancy, infancy and parenting (CoCoPIP) study: protocol for a longitudinal study of parental mental health, social interactions, physical growth and cognitive development of infants during the pandemic

    Article • BMJ Open, June 2022, BMJ

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  14. Expectant parents’ perceptions of healthcare and support during COVID-19 in the UK: a thematic analysis

    Article • Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  15. Giving birth in a pandemic: women’s birth experiences in England during COVID-19

    Article • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  16. Regional Haemodynamic and Metabolic Coupling in Infants

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, February 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  17. Imaging Cerebral Energy Metabolism in Healthy Infants

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  18. Infant social interactions and brain development: A systematic review

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  19. Infant Effortful Control Mediates Relations Between Nondirective Parenting and Internalising-Related Child Behaviours in an Autism-Enriched Infant Cohort

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Dr Ming Wai Wan

  20. Longitudinal infant fNIRS channel-space analyses are robust to variability parameters at the group-level: An image reconstruction investigation

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  21. Giving birth in a Pandemic: Women’s Birth Experiences in England during COVID-19

    Article • July 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  22. The COVID in the Context of Pregnancy, Infancy and Parenting (CoCoPIP) Study: protocol for a longitudinal study of parental mental health, social interactions, physical growth, and cognitive development of infants during the pandemic

    Article • May 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  23. Expectant parents’ perceptions of healthcare and support during COVID-19 in the UK: A thematic analysis

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  24. Behavioural and neural markers of tactile sensory processing in infants at elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  25. Developmental Paths to Anxiety in an Autism-Enriched Infant Cohort: The Role of Temperamental Reactivity and Regulation

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  26. Functional imaging of the developing brain with wearable high-density diffuse optical tomography: a new benchmark for infant neuroimaging outside the scanner environment

    Article • NeuroImage, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  27. Leveraging epigenetics to examine differences in developmental trajectories of social attention: A proof-of-principle study of DNA methylation in infants with older siblings with autism

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  28. Understanding the nature of face processing in early autism: A prospective study

    Article • May 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  29. Early Motor Differences in Infants at Elevated Likelihood of Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  30. ERP markers are associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes in 1–5 month old infants in rural Africa and the UK

    Article • NeuroImage, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  31. Standardising an infant fNIRS analysis pipeline to investigate neurodevelopment in global health

    Article • January 2020, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  32. Comparison of Parent Questionnaires, Examiner-Led Assessment and Parents’ Concerns at 14 Months of Age as Indicators of Later Diagnosis of Autism

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  33. Language experience impacts brain activation for spoken and signed language in infancy: Insights from unimodal and bimodal bilinguals

    Article • Neurobiology of Language, October 2019, The MIT Press

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  34. Implementing neuroimaging and eye tracking methods to assess neurocognitive development of young infants in low- and middle-income countries

    Article • Gates Open Research, August 2019, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  35. fNIRS for Tracking Brain Development in the Context of Global Health Projects

    Article • Photonics, August 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  36. Using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy to assess social information processing in poor urban Bangladeshi infants and toddlers

    Article • Developmental Science, May 2019, Wiley

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  37. Latent trajectories of adaptive behaviour in infants at high and low familial risk for autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Molecular Autism, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  38. Habituation and novelty detection fNIRS brain responses in 5- and 8-month-old infants: The Gambia and UK

    Article • Developmental Science, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  39. Adaptation of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning for use among infants aged 5‐ to 24‐months in rural Gambia

    Article • Developmental Science, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  40. Familial risk of autism alters subcortical and cerebellar brain anatomy in infants and predicts the emergence of repetitive behaviors in early childhood

    Article • Autism Research, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  41. Functional EEG connectivity in infants associates with later restricted and repetitive behaviours in autism; a replication study

    Article • Translational Psychiatry, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  42. Hand or spoon? Exploring the neural basis of affective touch in 5-month-old infants

    Article • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  43. Temperament as an Early Risk Marker for Autism Spectrum Disorders? A Longitudinal Study of High-Risk and Low-Risk Infants

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  44. Visual search and autism symptoms: What young children search for and co-occurring ADHD matter

    Article • Developmental Science, May 2018, Wiley

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  45. Prediction of Autism at 3 Years from Behavioural and Developmental Measures in High-Risk Infants: A Longitudinal Cross-Domain Classifier Analysis

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tony Charman, Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  46. Developmental change in look durations predicts later effortful control in toddlers at familial risk for ASD

    Article • Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tony Charman, Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  47. Optical imaging during toddlerhood: brain responses during naturalistic social interactions

    Article • Neurophotonics, January 2018, SPIE

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  48. Changes in Cytochrome-C-Oxidase Account for Changes in Attenuation of Near-Infrared Light in the Healthy Infant Brain

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  49. Cortical responses before 6 months of life associate with later autism

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, November 2017, Wiley

    Tony Charman, Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  50. Diminished socially selective neural processing in 5-month-old infants at high familial risk of autism

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  51. Cortical specialisation to social stimuli from the first days to the second year of life: A rural Gambian cohort

    Article • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  52. Non-invasive measurement of a metabolic marker of infant brain function

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  53. Mother–infant interactions and regional brain volumes in infancy: an MRI study

    Article • Brain Structure and Function, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  54. Visual search performance in infants associates with later ASD diagnosis

    Article • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, September 2016, Elsevier

    Tony Charman, Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  55. Correction to ‘Reduced neural sensitivity to social stimuli in infants at risk for autism’

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  56. Using fNIRS to Study Working Memory of Infants in Rural Africa

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  57. Atypical processing of voice sounds in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Cortex, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  58. Are you talking to me? Neural activations in 6-month-old infants in response to being addressed during natural interactions

    Article • Cortex, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  59. Neural Mechanisms of Body Awareness in Infants

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  60. Test–retest reliability of functional near infrared spectroscopy in infants

    Article • Neurophotonics, September 2014, SPIE

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  61. Coregistering functional near-infrared spectroscopy with underlying cortical areas in infants

    Article • Neurophotonics, September 2014, SPIE

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  62. Convergent and Divergent fMRI Responses in Children and Adults to Increasing Language Production Demands

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, June 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  63. Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to assess cognitive function in infants in rural Africa.

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  64. Goal representation in the infant brain

    Article • NeuroImage, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  65. Optical Imaging of Brain Activation in Gambian Infants

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  66. Body Perception in Newborns

    Article • Current Biology, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  67. Infant cortex responds to other humans from shortly after birth

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  68. Brain responses reveal young infants’ sensitivity to when a social partner follows their gaze

    Article • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  69. Cortical Activation to Action Perception is Associated with Action Production Abilities in Young Infants

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  70. An Online Database of Infant Functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy Studies: A Community-Augmented Systematic Review

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  71. Reduced neural sensitivity to social stimuli in infants at risk for autism

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Tony Charman

  72. Cortical Mapping of 3D Optical Topography in Infants

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  73. The emergence of cerebral specialization for the human voice over the first months of life

    Article • Social Neuroscience, May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  74. Three-dimensional optical topography of brain activity in infants watching videos of human movement

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, February 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  75. Selective Cortical Mapping of Biological Motion Processing in Young Infants

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, September 2011, The MIT Press

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  76. Early Specialization for Voice and Emotion Processing in the Infant Brain

    Article • Current Biology, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  77. Near-infrared spectroscopy: A report from the McDonnell infant methodology consortium

    Article • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  78. Illuminating the developing brain: The past, present and future of functional near infrared spectroscopy

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, February 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  79. Automatic Detection of Motion Artifacts in Infant Functional Optical Topography Studies

    Article • October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  80. Social Perception in Infancy: A Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study

    Article • Child Development, July 2009, Wiley

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  81. Early cortical specialization for face-to-face communication in human infants

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  82. Editorial: Do we study what parents want us to?

    Article • Developmental Science, November 2008, Wiley

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  83. Spatial localization of touch in the first year of life: Early influence of a visual spatial code and the development of remapping across changes in limb position.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox

  84. Investigation of depth dependent changes in cerebral haemodynamics during face perception in infants

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, November 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox