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Physical activity, aerobic fitness, and brain white matter: their role for executive functions in adolescence
Publication date: Available online 4 February 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Ilona Ruotsalainen, Tetiana Gorbach, Jaana Perkola, Ville Renvall, Heidi J. Syväoja, Tuija H. Tammelin, Juha Karvanen, Tiina ParviainenAbstractPhysical activity and exercise beneficially link to brain properties and cognitive functions in older adults, but the findings concerning adolescents remain tentative. During adolescence, the brain undergoes significant changes, which are especially pronounced in white matter. Studies provide contradictory evidence regarding the influence of physical activity or aerobic-exercise...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - February 5, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Influences of the early family environment and long-term vocabulary development on the structure of white matter pathways: A longitudinal investigation
Publication date: Available online 4 February 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Mengmeng Su, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Jingjing Zhao, Shuang Song, Wei Zhou, Gaolang Gong, Catherine McBride, Twila Tardif, Franck Ramus, Hua ShuAbstractIn the present longitudinal study, we investigated the joint effect of early family factors and long-term vocabulary development on the structure of reading-related white matter pathways in adolescents. Seventy-nine children participated in this study. Family environment was measured via parental questionnaire between age 1 and age 3. From age 4 to age 10, children�...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - February 5, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

The impact of novelty and emotion on attention-related neuronal and pupil responses in children
Publication date: Available online 4 February 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Carolina Bonmassar, Andreas Widmann, Nicole WetzelAbstractFocusing on relevant and ignoring irrelevant information is essential for many learning processes. The present study investigated attention-related brain activity and pupil dilation responses, evoked by task-irrelevant emotional novel sounds. In the framework of current theories about the relation between attention and the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system, we simultaneously registered event-related potentials (ERPs) in the EEG and changes in pupil di...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - February 5, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Mechanisms of learning and plasticity in childhood and adolescence
Publication date: Available online 30 January 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Yana Fandakova, Catherine A. Hartley (Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - February 1, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Three-month-old infants show enhanced behavioral and neural sensitivity to fearful faces
Publication date: Available online 28 January 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Kristina Safar, Margaret C. MoulsonAbstractAn important feature of the development of emotion recognition in infants is the emergence of a robust attentional bias for fearful faces. There is some debate about when this enhanced sensitivity to fearful expressions develops. The current study explored whether 3-month-olds demonstrate differential behavioral and neural responding to happy and fearful faces. Three-month-old infants (n = 69) participated in a behavioral task that assessed whether they show a visual prefer...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 28, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

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Publication date: February 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 41Author(s): (Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 25, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

The relationship between pubertal hormones and brain plasticity: Implications for cognitive training in adolescence
Publication date: Available online 22 January 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Corinna Laube, Wouter van den Bos, Yana FandakovaAbstractAdolescence may mark a sensitive period for the development of higher-order cognition through enhanced plasticity of cortical circuits. At the same time, animal research indicates that pubertal hormones may represent one key mechanism for closing sensitive periods in the associative neocortex, thereby resulting in decreased plasticity of cortical circuits in adolescence. In the present review, we set out to solve some of the existing ambiguity and examine how horm...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 23, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Working Together to Orient Faster: the Combined Effects of Alerting and Orienting Networks on Pupillary Responses at 8 Months of Age
Publication date: Available online 23 January 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): David López Pérez, Sonia Ramotowska, Anna Malinowska-Korczak, Maciej Haman, Przemysław TomalskiAbstractMultiple visual attention mechanisms are active already in infancy, most notably one supporting orienting towards stimuli and another, maintaining appropriate levels of alertness, when exploring the environment. They are thought to depend on separate brain networks, but their effects are difficult to isolate in existing behavioural paradigms. Better understanding of the contribution of each network to individual dif...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 23, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

From Movement to Action: An EEG Study into the Emerging Sense of Agency in Early Infancy
Publication date: Available online 21 January 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Lorijn Zaadnoordijk, Marlene Meyer, Martina Zaharieva, Falma Kemalasari, Stan van Pelt, Sabine HunniusAbstractResearch into the developing sense of agency has traditionally focused on sensitivity to sensorimotor contingencies, but whether this implies the presence of a causal action-effect model has recently been called into question. Here, we investigated whether 3- to 4.5-month-old infants build causal action-effect models by focusing on behavioral and neural measures of violation of expectation. Infants had time to e...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 22, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Developmental Divergence of Structural Brain Networks as an Indicator of Future Cognitive Impairments in Childhood Brain Injury: Executive Functions
This study aimed to measure the divergence of the brain networks in paediatric traumatic brain injury (pTBI) patients and controls, and investigate relationships with executive functioning (EF) at 24 months post-injury. T1-weighted MRI acquired acutely in 78 child survivors of pTBI and 33 controls underwent 3D-tissue segmentation to estimate cortical thickness (CT) across 68 atlas-based regions-of-interest (ROIs). Using an ‘add-one-patient’ approach, we estimate a developmental divergence index (DDI). Our approach adopts a novel analytic framework in which age-appropriate reference networks to calculate the DDI were ge...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 22, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Top-Down Knowledge Rapidly Acquired Through Abstract Rule Learning Biases Subsequent Visual Attention in 9-Month-Old Infants
Publication date: Available online 22 January 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): D.M. Werchan, D. AmsoAbstractVisual attention is an information-gathering mechanism that supports the emergence of complex perceptual and cognitive capacities. Yet, little is known about how the infant brain learns to direct attention to information that is most relevant for learning and behavior. Here we address this gap by examining whether learning a hierarchical rule structure, where there is a higher-order feature that organizes visual inputs into predictable sequences, subsequently biases 9-month-old infants’ vi...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 22, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Neural correlates of cognitive variability in childhood autism and relation to heterogeneity in decision-making dynamics
Publication date: Available online 9 January 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): T. Iuculano, A. Padmanabhan, L. Chen, J. Nicholas, S. Mitsven, C. de los Angeles, V. MenonAbstractHeterogeneity in cognitive and academic abilities is a prominent feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet little is known about its underlying causes. Here we combine functional brain imaging during numerical problem-solving with hierarchical drift-diffusion models of behavior and standardized measures of numerical abilities to investigate neural mechanisms underlying cognitive variability in children with ASD, and the...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 10, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Corrigendum to “Alterations of structural and functional connectivity in profound sensorineural hearing loss infants within an early sensitive period: A combined DTI and fMRI study” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 38 (2019) 100654]
Publication date: February 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 41Author(s): Shanshan Wang, Boyu Chen, Yalian Yu, Huaguang Yang, Wenzhuo Cui, Jian Li, Guo Guang Fan (Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 8, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Anatomo-functional correlates of auditory development in infancy
This study combining dedicated EEG and MRI approaches in infants highlights the complex relation between the functional responses to auditory stimuli and the maturational properties of the corresponding neural network. (Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - January 4, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Corrigendum to “Always on my mind: Cross-brain associations of mental health symptoms during simultaneous parent-child scanning” [Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. 40 (December) (2019) 100729]
Publication date: February 2020Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 41Author(s): Kelly T. Cosgrove, Kara L. Kerr, Robin L. Aupperle, Erin L. Ratliff, Danielle C. DeVille, Jennifer S. Silk, Kaiping Burrows, Andrew J. Moore, Chase Antonacci, Masaya Misaki, Susan F. Tapert, Jerzy Bodurka, W. Kyle Simmons, Amanda Sheffield Morris (Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - December 28, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research