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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Metastability in brain dynamics reflects a balance between stable and unstable states, crucial for cognitive functions.
  • Previous research on brain metastability has primarily focused on adults, with limited studies in early development due to data acquisition challenges.
  • Metastability is theorized to underlie neural synchronization for cognitive states and is linked to cognitive flexibility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel method for characterizing electroencephalography (EEG) signal stability in preschool-aged children.
  • To investigate the developmental trajectory of EEG signal stability in early childhood.
  • To establish a potential biomarker for cognitive development and flexibility.

Main Methods:

  • Adapted a method for quantifying cortical phase resets in adult EEG to analyze EEG frequency variance in children.
  • Quantified the variance of the rate of change of the signal phase (frequency variance) as a proxy for signal instability (phase resets).
  • Applied the method to a cohort of 39 preschool-aged children (mean age 53 ± 13.6 months).

Main Results:

  • Frequency variance demonstrated an increase with the number of phase resets in simulated (surrogate) signals, validating it as a marker of signal stability.
  • A significant negative cross-sectional correlation was found between frequency variance and age in the child cohort (r = -0.47, p = 0.0028).
  • EEG signal stability, measured by frequency variance, increases with age in preschool children.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method provides a promising approach to quantify EEG signal stability in young children.
  • Findings indicate that EEG signal stability increases during early childhood development.
  • Future research will explore the relationship between this EEG stability biomarker and executive functions, including cognitive flexibility, in typical and atypical development.