Borja Blanco

Beaton, S., Blanco, B., Bulgarelli, C., Elwell, C.E., Lloyd-Fox, S., Mbye, E., McCann, S., Blasi Ribera, A., & Moore, S.E. (2026). Investigating the effect of channel pruning on functional near-infrared spectroscopy data collected from children aged 5 to 24 months. Neurophotonics, 13(1). Doi:10.1117/1.NPh.13.1.015011

Benerradi, J., Bulgarelli, C., Mbye, E., Blanco, B., Touray, E., McCann, S., Milosavljevic, B., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., Blasi, A., & Lloyd-Fox, S. (2026). Functional specialisation across the first five years of life: A longitudinal characterisation of social perception with fNIRS. Imaging Neuroscience, 4. Doi:10.1162/IMAG.a.1368

Greenhalgh, I., Blanco, B., Bulgarelli, C., Mbye, E., Touray, E., Rozhko, M., Katus, L., Hayes, N., McCann, S., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., Blasi, A., & Lloyd-Fox, S. (2026). Cross-paradigm fNIRS brain activity in 1-month-old infants across The Gambia and the United Kingdom. Neurophotonics, 13, S13007-S13007. Doi:10.1117/1.NPh.13.S1.S13007

Rozhko, M., van der Straaten, M., Blanco, B., Greenhalgh, I., Benerradi, J., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., Lloyd-Fox, S., & Blasi, A. (2026). Effect of sleep stage on patterns of fNIRS hemodynamic response to auditory paradigms in 1-month-old Gambian and UK infants. Neurophotonics, 13, S13013-S13013. Doi:10.1117/1.NPh.13.S1.S13013

Blanco, B., Molnar, M., Arrieta, I., Caballero-Gaudes, C., & Carreiras, M. (2025). Functional Brain Adaptations During Speech Processing in 4-Month-Old Bilingual Infants. Developmental Science, 28(1). Doi:10.1111/desc.13572

Blasi Ribera, A., Blanco Maniega, B., McCann, S., Mbye, E., Touray, E., Rozhko, M., Milosavljevic, B., Katus, L., Saidykhan, M., Ceesay, M., Fadera, T., Ghillia, G., Perapoch Amado, M., Crespo-Llado, M.M., Moore, S.E., Elwell, C.E., & Lloyd-Fox, S. (2025). Longitudinal habituation and novelty detection neural responses from infancy to early childhood in The Gambia and UK. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 76. Doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101619

Clackson, K., Ilyka, D., Blanco, B., Weiss, S.M., Greenhalgh, I., Rozhko, M., Carnevali, L., Weatherhead, M., Ma, X., Ustun-Elayan, B., Aydin, E., Ferre, N.C., Austin, T., Reissland, N., Johnson, M.H., & Lloyd-Fox, S. (2025). Perinatal Imaging in Partnership with Families (PIPKIN): Longitudinal cohort study protocol. Plos One, 20(12 December). Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0330915

Collins-Jones, L.H., Gossé, L.K., Blanco, B., Bulgarelli, C., Siddiqui, M., Vidal-Rosas, E.E., Duobaitė, N., Nixon-Hill, R.W., Smith, G., Skipper, J., Sargent, T., Powell, S., Everdell, N.L., Jones, E.J.H., & Cooper, R.J. (2024). Whole-head high-density diffuse optical tomography to map infant audio-visual responses to social and non-social stimuli. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1-19. Doi:10.1162/imag_a_00244

Blanco, B., Lloyd-Fox, S., Begum-Ali, J., Pirazzoli, L., Goodwin, A., Mason, L., Pasco, G., Charman, T., Jones, E.J.H., Johnson, M.H., Agyapong, M., Bazelmans, T., Blasi, A., Cheung, C., Dafner, L., Elsabbagh, M., Ersoy, M., Gliga, T., Haartsen, R., Halkola, H., Hendry, A., Holman, R., Kalwarowsky, S., Kolesnik, A., Narvekar, N., & Taylor, C. (2023). Cortical responses to social stimuli in infants at elevated likelihood of ASD and/or ADHD: A prospective cross-condition fNIRS study. Cortex, 169, 18-34. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2023.07.010

Uchitel, J., Blanco, B., Collins-Jones, L., Edwards, A., Porter, E., Pammenter, K., Hebden, J., Cooper, R.J., & Austin, T. (2023). Cot-side imaging of functional connectivity in the developing brain during sleep using wearable high-density diffuse optical tomography. Neuroimage, 265. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119784

Uchitel, J., Blanco, B., Vidal-Rosas, E., Collins-Jones, L., & Cooper, R.J. (2022). Reliability and similarity of resting state functional connectivity networks imaged using wearable, high-density diffuse optical tomography in the home setting. Neuroimage, 263. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119663

Blanco, B., Molnar, M., Carreiras, M., Collins-Jones, L.H., Vidal, E., Cooper, R.J., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2021). Group-level cortical functional connectivity patterns using fNIRS: assessing the effect of bilingualism in young infants. Neurophotonics, 8(2). Doi:10.1117/1.NPh.8.2.025011

Uchitel, J., Blanco, B., Collins-Jones, L., Vidal-Rosas, E.E., & Cooper, R.J. (2021). Wearable HD-DOT for investigating functional connectivity in the adult brain: A single subject, multi-session study. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE, 11920. Doi:10.1117/12.2615360

Uchitel, J., Blanco, B., Collins-Jones, L., Vidal-Rosas, E.E., & Cooper, R.J. (2021). Wearable HD-DOT for investigating functional connectivity in the adult brain: A single subject, multi-session study. Optics Infobase Conference Papers.

Lee, C.W., Blanco, B., Dempsey, L., Chalia, M., Hebden, J.C., Caballero-Gaudes, C., Austin, T., & Cooper, R.J. (2020). Sleep State Modulates Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Neonates. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14. Doi:10.3389/fnins.2020.00347

Blanco, B., Molnar, M., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2018). Effect of prewhitening in resting-state functional near-infrared spectroscopy data. Neurophotonics, 5(4). Doi:10.1117/1.NPh.5.4.040401