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Volumetric and microstructural regional changes of the hippocampus underlying development of recall performance after extended retention intervals
In conclusion, performance on recall tests using extended retention intervals shows unique development, likely due to changes in encoding depth or efficacy, or improvements of long-term consolidation processes. (Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 24, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Father-infant interactions and infant regional brain volumes: a cross-sectional MRI study
Publication date: Available online 21 October 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Vaheshta Sethna, Jasmine Siew, Inês Pote, Siying Wang, Maria Gudbrandsen, Charlotte Lee, Emily Perry, Kerrie P.H. Adams, Clare Watson, Johanna Kangas, Vladimira Stoencheva, Eileen Daly, Maria Kuklisova-Murgasova, Steven C.R. Williams, Michael C. Craig, Declan G.M. Murphy, Grainne M. McAlonan (Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 22, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Corticosterone administration targeting a hypo-reactive HPA axis rescues a socially avoidant phenotype in scarcity-adversity reared rats
This study utilized a rodent model of “scarcity-adversity,” which encompasses material resource deprivation (scarcity) and reduced caregiving quality (adversity), to explore how early-life scarcity-adversity causally influences social behavior via disruption of developing stress physiology. Results showed that early-life scarcity-adversity exposure increased social avoidance when offspring were tested in a social approach test in peri-adolescence. Furthermore, early-life scarcity-adversity led to blunted hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity as measured via adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and corticoste...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 19, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Stable longitudinal associations of family income with children’s hippocampal volume and memory persist after controlling for polygenic scores of educational attainment
Publication date: Available online 17 October 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Laurel Raffington, Darina Czamara, Johannes Julius Mohn, Johannes Falck, Vanessa Schmoll, Christine Heim, Elisabeth B. Binder, Yee Lee ShingAbstractDespite common notion that the correlation of socioeconomic status with child cognitive performance may be driven by both environmentally– and genetically–mediated transactional pathways, there is a lack of longitudinal and genetically informed research that examines these postulated associations. The present study addresses whether family income predicts associative mem...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 19, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Social Exclusion Affects Working Memory Performance in Young Adolescent Girls
Publication date: Available online 16 October 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Delia Fuhrmann, Caroline S. Casey, Maarten Speekenbrink, Sarah-Jayne BlakemoreAbstractAdolescence has been proposed to be a sensitive period of social development, during which the social environment has a heightened effect on brain and behaviour. As such, negative social experiences, such as social exclusion, may have particularly detrimental effects on psychological well-being. However, little is known about how social exclusion affects cognitive performance during this time of life. Here, we compared the effects of e...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 18, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Faster learners transfer their knowledge better: behavioral, mnemonic, and neural mechanisms of individual differences in children’s learning
Publication date: Available online 15 October 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Hyesang Chang, Miriam Rosenberg-Lee, Shaozheng Qin, Vinod MenonAbstractWhy some children learn, and transfer their knowledge to novel problems, better than others remains an important unresolved question in the science of learning. Here we developed an innovative tutoring program and data analysis approach to investigate individual differences in neurocognitive mechanisms that support math learning and “near” transfer to novel, but structurally related, problems in elementary school children. Following just five day...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 16, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Simultaneous EEG and fMRI reveals stronger sensitivity to orthographic strings in the left occipito-temporal cortex of typical versus poor beginning readers
Publication date: Available online 4 October 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Georgette Pleisch, Iliana I. Karipidis, Alexandra Brem, Martina Röthlisberger, Alexander Roth, Daniel Brandeis, Susanne Walitza, Silvia BremAbstractThe level of reading skills in children and adults is reflected in the strength of preferential neural activation to print. Such preferential activation appears in the N1 event-related potential (ERP) over the occipitotemporal scalp after around 150-250 ms and the corresponding blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal in the ventral occipitotemporal (vOT) cortex. Here, ort...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 6, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Editorial Board/Aims and Scope
Publication date: October 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 39Author(s): (Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 5, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Maternal Care in Infancy and the Course of Limbic Development
Publication date: Available online 3 October 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Annie Lee, Joann S. Poh, Daniel J. Wen, Hui Min Tan, Yap-Seng Chong, Kok Hian Tan, Peter D. Gluckman, Marielle V. Fortier, Anne Rifkin-Graboi, Anqi QiuAbstractMaternal care may predict limbic development, though relations may vary by age and type of assessment. Here, we examined maternal behavior during early infancy (i.e., six months postpartum) in relation to offspring hippocampal and amygdala volume and microstructure development between 4.5 (n = 99) and 6 (n = 111) years. In interaction with offspring sex, ma...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 5, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Maternal Overprotection in Childhood is Associated with Amygdala Reactivity and Structural Connectivity in Adulthood
Publication date: Available online 1 October 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Madeline J. Farber, M. Justin Kim, Annchen R. Knodt, Ahmad R. HaririAbstractRecently, we reported that variability in early-life caregiving experiences maps onto individual differences in threat-related brain function. Here, we extend this work to provide further evidence that subtle variability in specific features of early caregiving shapes structural and functional connectivity between the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in a cohort of 312 young adult volunteers. Multiple regression analyses revealed that...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - October 3, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Eye tracking in developmental cognitive neuroscience – the good, the bad and the ugly
Publication date: Available online 27 September 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Roy S. Hessels, Ignace T.C. HoogeAbstractEye tracking is a popular research tool in developmental cognitive neuroscience for studying the development of perceptual and cognitive processes. However, eye tracking in the context of development is also challenging. In this paper, we ask how knowledge on eye-tracking data quality can be used to improve eye-tracking recordings and analyses in longitudinal research so that valid conclusions about child development may be drawn. We answer this question by adopting the data-qu...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - September 29, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Identifying Reproducible Individual Differences in Childhood Functional Brain Networks: An ABCD Study
Publication date: Available online 19 September 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Scott Marek, Brenden Tervo-Clemmens, Ashley N. Nielsen, Muriah D. Wheelock, Ryland L. Miller, Timothy O. Laumann, Eric Earl, William W. Foran, Michaela Cordova, Olivia Doyle, Anders Perrone, Oscar Miranda-Dominguez, Eric Feczko, Darrick Sturgeon, Alice Graham, Robert Hermosillo, Kathy Snider, Anthony Galassi, Bonnie J. Nagel, Sarah W. Feldstein EwingAbstractThe 21-site Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study provides an unparalleled opportunity to characterize functional brain development via resting-state...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - September 20, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Exposure to violence and low family income are associated with heightened amygdala responsiveness to threat among adolescents
Publication date: Available online 18 September 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Stuart F. White, Joel L. Voss, Jessica J. Chiang, Lei Wang, Katie A. McLaughlin, Gregory E. MillerAbstractThe processing of emotional facial expressions is important for social functioning and is influenced by environmental factors, including early environmental experiences. Low socio-economic status (SES) is associated with greater exposure to uncontrollable stressors, including violence, as well as deprivation, defined as a lack or decreased complexity of expected environmental input. The current study examined amyg...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - September 20, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Continuity in the Neural System Supporting Children’s Theory of Mind Development: Longitudinal links between task-independent EEG and task-dependent fMRI
We examined whether there is longitudinal stability in the neurobiological bases of ToM across this time period. A previous study found that source-localized resting EEG alpha attributable to the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) and right temporoparietal junction (RTPJ) was associated with children’s performance on a battery of theory of mind tasks. Here, we investigated a small subset of children (N = 12) in that original study as a preliminary investigation of whether behavioral measures of ToM performance, and/or EEG localized to the DMPFC or RTPJ predicted ToM-specific fMRI responses 3.5 years later. Resul...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - September 17, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Neural Correlates of Early Deliberate Emotion Regulation: Young Children’s Responses to Interpersonal Scaffolding
Publication date: Available online 11 September 2019Source: Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Adam S. Grabell, Theodore J. Huppert, Frank A. Fishburn, Yanwei Li, Christina O. Hlutkowsky, Hannah M. Jones, Lauren S. Wakschlag, Susan B. PerlmanAbstractDeliberate emotion regulation, the ability to willfully modulate emotional experiences, is shaped through interpersonal scaffolding and forecasts later functioning in multiple domains. However, nascent deliberate emotion regulation in early childhood is poorly understood due to a paucity of studies that simulate interpersonal scaffolding of this skill and measure it...
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - September 12, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research