Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope146
A data integration method for new advances in development cognitive neuroscience114
Identifying high school risk factors that forecast heavy drinking onset in understudied young adults90
Neurocognitive risks of asthma during childhood85
Developmental trajectories of gyrification and sulcal morphometrics in children and adolescents at high familial risk for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia68
Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years66
Characterizing different cognitive and neurobiological profiles in a community sample of children using a non-parametric approach: An fMRI study63
Biospecimens in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: Rationale and protocol58
Functional connectivity patterns as an early indicator of later very early preterm outcomes57
Distinct theta oscillation coherence patterns during visual selective attention in children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder57
Music impacts brain cortical microstructural maturation in very preterm infants: A longitudinal diffusion MR imaging study54
Neurodevelopmental correlates of emotion regulation in adolescence: An accelerated longitudinal study53
Number words recruit numerosity-related cortex in 3- to 5-year-old children53
Pubertal timing predicts resting-state functional connectivity of cortical networks52
Developmental aspects of fear generalization – A MEG study on neurocognitive correlates in adolescents versus adults52
Reduced volume of the left cerebellar lobule VIIb and its increased connectivity within the cerebellum predict more general psychopathology one year later via worse cognitive flexibility in children51
Preterm neonates distinguish rhythm violation through a hierarchy of cortical processing50
Corrigendum to “Multiple mechanisms regulate statistical learning of orthographic regularities in school-age children: Neurophysiological evidence” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 59C (2023) 101190]50
Corrigendum to “Previous institutionalization is associated with elevated functional connectivity between the nucleus accumbens and amygdala during aversive learning” [Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. 76 (2025)50
Measurement of emerging neurocognitive and language skills in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study49
Hooked on a thought: Associations between rumination and neural responses to social rejection in adolescent girls47
Fronto-amygdala resting state functional connectivity is associated with anxiety symptoms among adolescent girls more advanced in pubertal maturation45
Irritability in early to middle childhood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with resting state amygdala and ventral striatum connectivity45
Advancing high quality longitudinal data collection: Implications for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study design and recruitment45
The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods44
Utilizing functional neuroimaging to study early language development44
Developing cortex is functionally pluripotent: Evidence from blindness42
Cognitive control processes and emotion regulation in adolescence: Examining the impact of affective inhibition and heart-rate-variability on emotion regulation dynamics in daily life41
Optimal two-time point longitudinal models for estimating individual-level change: Asymptotic insights and practical implications40
Early childhood family threat and longitudinal amygdala-mPFC circuit development: Examining cortical thickness and gray matter-white matter contrast39
A systematic review of childhood maltreatment and resting state functional connectivity38
Audiovisual integration in reading among school-aged children: Evidence from combined fMRI and EEG37
Leveraging brain science for impactful advocacy and policymaking: The synergistic partnership between developmental cognitive neuroscientists and a parent-led grassroots movement to drive dyslexia pre35
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope35
Evaluating a novel high-density EEG sensor net structure for improving inclusivity in infants with curly or tightly coiled hair33
Real-time monitoring of infant theta power during naturalistic social experiences32
Causation, trait correlation, and translation: Developmental brain imaging in research on neuropsychiatric conditions of childhood31
Assessment of maternal health and behavior during pregnancy in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Rationale and approach30
Diminished reinforcement sensitivity in adolescence is associated with enhanced response switching and reduced coding of choice probability in the medial frontal pole30
Longitudinal associations between language network characteristics in the infant brain and school-age reading abilities are mediated by early-developing phonological skills29
Pubertal development underlies optimization of inhibitory control through specialization of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex29
Identifying developmental changes in functional brain connectivity associated with cognitive functioning in children and adolescents with ADHD29
Chronic home radon exposure impacts the development of oscillatory dynamics serving visuospatial attention28
Relational victimization prospectively predicts increases in error-related brain activity and social anxiety in children and adolescents across two years27
Corrigendum to “Effects of orienteering exercise on spatial visualization ability in preschool children aged 4–5 years: Behavioral and fNIRS evidence” [Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. 79 (2026) Article Number:27
The HAPPE plus Event-Related (HAPPE+ER) software: A standardized preprocessing pipeline for event-related potential analyses27
The development of functional connectivity within the dorsal striatum from early childhood to adulthood26
Understanding barriers to adolescent participation in developmental neuroscience research26
Influences of age and pubertal development on P300 amplitude trajectory across two years in female adolescents26
Preterm birth, socioeconomic status, and white matter development across childhood25
Altered associations between white matter structure and psychopathology in previously institutionalized adolescents25
Parental substance use history density and its influence on reward anticipation brain activation in late childhood and early adolescence25
Developmental differences in hippocampal long-axis contributions to memory precision25
Subcortical and cerebellar volume differences in bilingual and monolingual children: An ABCD study25
Grammar acquisition in preschool children is related to white matter maturation of the dorsal language network25
Socioeconomic dissociations in the neural and cognitive bases of reading disorders25
The developing visual system: A building block on the path to autism25
Aperiodic EEG and 7T MRSI evidence for maturation of E/I balance supporting the development of working memory through adolescence24
Neural correlates of theory of mind reasoning in congenitally blind children23
From vision to memory: How scene-sensitive regions support episodic memory formation during child development23
Childhood trauma and brain structure in children and adolescents23
Differential adolescent neurodevelopment of emotion processing across internalizing psychopathology and childhood adversity22
Longitudinal developmental trajectories of inhibition and white-matter maturation of the fronto-basal-ganglia circuits22
Developmental and aging trajectories of 40-Hz auditory steady-state responses: A systematic review across the human lifespan22
Anterior insula reactivity to loss moderates the association between trait impulsivity and future suicidal ideation in adolescents22
No statistical learning advantage in children over adults: Evidence from behaviour and neural entrainment22
Individual differences in delay discounting are associated with dorsal prefrontal cortex connectivity in children, adolescents, and adults21
Developmental brain changes during puberty and associations with mental health problems21
Behavioral and neural responses to social rejection: Individual differences in developmental trajectories across childhood and adolescence21
Sing to me, baby: Infants show neural tracking and rhythmic movements to live and dynamic maternal singing21
Maturational changes in frontal EEG alpha and theta activity from infancy into early childhood and the relation with self-regulation in boys and girls21
Missing data approaches for longitudinal neuroimaging research: Examples from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) 21
Behavioural inhibition and early neural processing of happy and angry faces interact to predict anxiety: a longitudinal ERP study20
Positive risk taking and neural sensitivity to risky decision making in adolescence20
MRI-based structural development of the human newborn hypothalamus20
Causal effects of physical activity and screen time on childhood intelligence via Mendelian randomization: The mediating role of intracranial volume20
Somatosensory prediction in the premature neonate brain20
A six-year longitudinal study examining chronicity and timing of maltreatment effects on risk-related functional connectivity change across adolescence20
Corrigendum to “Functional maturation in visual pathways predicts attention to the eyes in infant rhesus macaques: Effects of social status” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci., 60 C (2023): 101213]20
Associations between multi-method latent factors of puberty and brain structure in adolescent girls20
A decade of discovery: Leveraging genomic data in the ABCD study to illuminate adolescent neurodevelopment20
Beyond motor learning: Insights from infant magnetic resonance imaging on the critical role of the cerebellum in behavioral development19
Multi-site EEG studies in early infancy: Methods to enhance data quality19
Language network functional connectivity in infancy predicts developmental language trajectories19
Untangling brain and behavioural measures of visual statistical learning: A longitudinal study in infancy19
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope19
Coupling between prefrontal brain activity and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in infants and adults19
Temporal discounting for self and friends in adolescence: A fMRI study18
Gestational and postnatal age associations for striatal tissue iron deposition in early infancy18
Intergenerational neuroimaging’s present and future: Considering sex as a biological variable to enhance knowledge of brain development through parent–offspring similarity18
Childhood adversity is associated with reduced BOLD response in inhibitory control regions amongst preadolescents from the ABCD study18
Exogenous testosterone administration is associated with differential neural response to unfamiliar peer’s and own caregiver’s voice in transgender adolescents18
Language exposure during infancy is negatively associated with white matter microstructure in the arcuate fasciculus18
Cortical latency predicts reading fluency from late childhood to early adolescence17
Measuring early experiences: Challenges and future directions17
Disentangling the unique contributions of age, pubertal stage, and pubertal hormones to brain structure in childhood and adolescence17
Developmental differences in EEG oscillations supporting the identification of novel word meaning from context17
The importance of timing of socioeconomic disadvantage throughout development for depressive symptoms and brain structure17
The role of socioeconomic status in shaping associations between sensory association cortex and prefrontal structure and implications for executive function17
Adolescents’ neural sensitivity to high and low popularity: Longitudinal links to risk-taking and prosocial behavior17
The role (and limits) of developmental neuroscience in determining adolescents’ autonomy rights: The case for reproductive and voting rights16
Early life stress and functional network topology in children16
Hemispheric dominance in reading system alters contribution to face processing lateralization across development16
Corrigendum to “Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 50 (2021) 100984]16
The role of brain structure in the association between pubertal timing and depression risk in an early adolescent sample (the ABCD Study®): A registered report16
Interactive effects of participant and stimulus race on cognitive performance in youth: Insights from the ABCD study16
Neurodevelopmental oscillatory basis of speech processing in noise15
Academic success and mental health: The paradox of Frontoparietal‐Default Mode Network coupling among children facing poverty15
Brain developmental trajectories associated with childhood stuttering persistence and recovery15
Neural representations of the value of helping the family during adolescence15
Delay discounting in adolescence depends on whom you wait for: Evidence from a functional neuroimaging study15
Sex and pubertal variation in reward-related behavior and neural activation in early adolescents15
Longitudinal development of the anterior insula-nucleus accumbens white matter pathway through adolescence predicts risk taking in young adulthood15
Combined multi-session transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and language skills training improves individual gamma band activity and literacy skills in developmental dyslexia15
Sample size estimation for task-related functional MRI studies using Bayesian updating15
No robust evidence for an interaction between early-life adversity and protective factors on global and regional brain volumes15
Effects of single and combined exposure to lead and stress during pregnancy on offspring neurodevelopment15
Developmental changes in dopamine-related neurophysiology and associations with adolescent substance use and incentive-boosted cognitive control15
Demographics change the relationships between socioeconomic status, white matter network organization, and cognition in children15
White matter and literacy: A dynamic system in flux15
Abnormal Granger causal connectivity based on altered gray matter volume and associated neurotransmitters of adolescents with internet gaming disorder revealed by a multimodal neuroimaging study14
Rhythmic visual stimulation as a window into early brain development: A systematic review14
Longitudinal and prospective assessment of prenatal maternal sleep quality and associations with newborn hippocampal and amygdala volume13
Behaviorally inhibited preschoolers experience stronger connectivity among social-related neural regions while interacting with a stranger13
Connectome-based predictive modeling of concurrent and longitudinal substance use vulnerability in adolescence13
Strategies for collection, management, and release of data for multi-site longitudinal studies: Lessons from the ABCD Data Analysis, Informatics, & Resource Center13
Precision functional mapping of the individual human brain near birth13
Neurodevelopmental differences in task-evoked number network connectivity: Comparing symbolic and nonsymbolic number discrimination in children and adults13
Neural correlates of vicarious reward processing and peer victimization experiences in late childhood13
A longitudinal study of the relationship between alcohol-related blackouts and attenuated structural brain development13
The automated preprocessing pipe-line for the estimation of scale-wise entropy from EEG data (APPLESEED): Development and validation for use in pediatric populations13
Electrophysiological activity predicts children's reading ability through orthographic awareness: Evidence from a cross-sectional and longitudinal study13
Increasing diversity in neuroimaging research: Participant-driven recommendations from a qualitative study of an under-represented sample13
Individual variability in neural correlates of visual engagement in premature toddlers13
Phonological decoding ability is associated with fiber density of the left arcuate fasciculus longitudinally across reading development12
Longitudinal analysis of the ABCD® study12
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope12
Leveraging mixed-effects location scale models to assess the ERP mismatch negativity’s psychometric properties and trial-by-trial neural variability in toddler-mother dyads12
Developmental coupling of brain iron and intrinsic activity in infants during the first 150 days12
Development of cognitive control during adolescence: The integrative effects of family socioeconomic status and parenting behaviors12
The impact of a monthly unconditional cash transfer on child brain activity: A 4-year follow-up12
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope12
Mapping early corpus callosum development to identify neurodevelopmental risk12
Developmentally sensitive multispectral cortical connectivity profiles serving visual selective attention12
Associations between mesolimbic connectivity, and alcohol use from adolescence to adulthood12
Immature excitatory neurons in the amygdala come of age during puberty12
Advances on design considerations in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience12
Preterm birth and neonatal white matter microstructure in in-vivo reconstructed fiber tracts among audiovisual integration brain regions12
UNITY: A low-field magnetic resonance neuroimaging initiative to characterize neurodevelopment in low and middle-income settings12
Corrigendum to "Normalization of EEG activity among previously institutionalized children placed into foster care: A 12-year follow-up of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project” [Dev. Cognit. Neuros11
Excitatory and inhibitory neurochemical markers of anxiety in young females11
Increasing representational capacity in the hippocampal-frontoparietal system underlies hierarchical development of temporal memory11
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope11
A four-factor model of executive function: Predicting physical and academic outcomes from cognitive assessments in adolescents11
Associations among socioeconomic disadvantage, longitudinal changes in within-network connectivity, and academic outcomes in the ABCD study11
The development and structure of the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study EEG protocol11
Wanting to matter and learning to care: A neurodevelopmental window of opportunity for (Pro) social learning?11
Predictive coding and attention in developmental cognitive neuroscience and perspectives for neurodevelopmental disorders11
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope11
Communications, engagement, and dissemination strategies for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study11
White matter microstructure organization across the transition to fatherhood11
Developmental human brain connectome from fetal stage to early childhood11
Unpredictable caregiving is associated with disrupted neurophysiological measures of attention and autonomic function in three-month-old infants11
Why weight? Analytic approaches for large-scale population neuroscience data10
Introduction to the special issue from Flux Congress 202310
Antenatal maternal intimate partner violence exposure is associated with sex-specific alterations in brain structure among young infants: Evidence from a South African birth cohort10
State-dependent inter-network functional connectivity development in neonatal brain from the developing human connectome project10
The origins of time: A systematic review of the neural signatures of temporal prediction in infancy10
From mother to child: How intergenerational transfer is reflected in similarity of corticolimbic brain structure and mental health10
Adolescent brain cognitive development study: Longitudinal methods, developmental findings, and associations with environmental risk factors10
When little brain goes to school: Impact of pedagogy on cerebellar peduncles’ development10
The development of aperiodic and periodic resting-state power between early childhood and adulthood: New insights from optically pumped magnetometers10
Characterising mental wellbeing and associations with subcortical grey matter volume at short intervals in early adolescence10
Advancing the reporting of pediatric EEG data: Tools for estimating reliability, effect size, and data quality metrics10
Untangling relationships between cognitive development and child and adolescent mental health: Findings from the ABCD Study10
Neurodevelopmental trajectories of letter and speech sound processing from preschool to the end of elementary school10
The first year in formal schooling improves working memory and academic abilities10
Youth screen use in the ABCD® study10
Evaluating the reliability of functional near-infrared spectroscopy data in the context of a reasoning paradigm10
Impacts of adrenarcheal DHEA levels on spontaneous cortical activity during development10
Quantifying brain development in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: The magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy protocol10
EEG time-frequency dynamics of early cognitive control development10
Corrigendum to “Disentangling the role of different resting-state neural markers of adolescent behavioral inhibition and social anxiety” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 73 (2025) 101560]10
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope10
Inhibitory control development from infancy to early childhood: A longitudinal fNIRS study10
Preterm birth differentially impacts structural and functional connectivity of cortical gyri and sulci9
Theta activity as a marker of cognitive development in infancy: A longitudinal study across the first two years of life9
Modeling differences in neurodevelopmental maturity of the reading network using support vector regression on functional connectivity data9
Corrigendum to “Behavioral and cognitive correlates of the aperiodic (1/f-like) exponent of the EEG power spectrum in adolescents with and without ADHD” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 48C (2021) 100931]9
Interpretation of individual differences in computational neuroscience using a latent input approach9
Developmental differences in social information use under uncertainty: A neurocomputational approach9
Metacontrol instructions lead to adult-like event segmentation in adolescents9
Component-specific developmental trajectories of ERP indices of cognitive control in early childhood9
A subset of cortical areas exhibit adult-like functional network patterns in early childhood9
Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research9
Does pubertal stage mediate the association between family environment and structure and function of the amygdala-mPFC circuit? A replication study of the longitudinal ABCD cohort9
Encoding models for developmental cognitive computational neuroscience: Promise, challenges, and potential9
Integrating multilevel, multidomain and multimodal neuroimaging factors to predict early alcohol exposure trajectories using explainable AI9
Differential microstructural development within sensorimotor cortical regions: A diffusion MRI study in preterm and full-term infants9
Using synthetic MR images for distortion correction9
Individual differences in T1w/T2w ratio development during childhood9
How does SES influence the brain circuitry for literacy? Modeling the association between SES, oral language, white matter integrity, and reading9
¿Donde están? Hispanic/Latine inclusion, diversity and representation in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD)9
Constraints on infants’ ability to extract non-adjacent dependencies from vowels and consonants9
Corrigendum to “A multi-sample evaluation of the measurement structure and function of the modified monetary incentive delay task in adolescents” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 65 (2024) 1–17]9
Corrigendum to “Deep learning in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging research”[Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. (2026), 101680]9
Infant neural processing of mother’s face is associated with falling reactivity in the first year of life9
Neurocognitive basis of model-based decision making and its metacontrol in childhood9
Infant and early childhood physical health assessments in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study9
Pediatric resting EEG collection, preprocessing, and analysis: A systematic review8
Infant embodied attention in context: Feasibility of home-based head-mounted eye tracking in early infancy8
Effects of prenatal cannabis exposure on developmental trajectory of cognitive ability and brain volumes in the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study8
Characterizing the dimensional structure of early-life adversity in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study8
Puberty differentially predicts brain maturation in male and female youth: A longitudinal ABCD Study8
Multi-level fMRI analysis applied to hemispheric specialization in the language network, functional areas, and their behavioral correlations in the ABCD sample8
Longitudinal alterations in brain morphometry mediated the effects of bullying victimization on cognitive development in preadolescents.8
Familial risk for depression moderates neural circuitry in healthy preadolescents to predict adolescent depression symptoms in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study8
Neural processing of speech sounds at premature and term birth: ERPs and MMR between 32 and 42 weeks of gestation8
The interplay between executive function and learning disabilities: Developmental cognitive neuroscience perspectives on reading, math, and ADHD8
Neonatal brain-age models in full- and preterm infants8
Pubertal timing and tempo differentially influence cortical and subcortical maturation in adolescence8
The development of the relationship between auditory and visual neural sensitivity and autonomic arousal from 6 m to 12 m8
Experience-dependent cortical plasticity in response to formal schooling: Effects on networks for reading and mathematics8
The impact of prenatal and postnatal acoustic experience to the discrimination of native versus non-native linguistic rules in the brain: insights from combined electrophysiological and vascular signa8
Amygdala subregion volumes and apportionment in preadolescents — Associations with age, sex, and body mass index8
Remote data collection of infant activity and sleep patterns via wearable sensors in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD)8
Ten-month-old infants’ neural tracking of naturalistic speech is not facilitated by the speaker’s eye gaze8
Sex and age variations in the impact of puberty on cortical thickness and associations with internalizing symptoms and suicidal ideation in early adolescence8
Neurophysiological mechanisms of cognition in the developing brain: Insights from intracranial EEG studies8
Associations between alcohol use and sex-specific maturation of subcortical gray matter morphometry from adolescence to adulthood: Replication across two longitudinal samples7
Brief mock-scan training reduces head motion during real scanning for children: A growth curve study7
Neural correlates involved in perspective-taking in early childhood7
Linking brain maturation and puberty during early adolescence using longitudinal brain age prediction in the ABCD cohort7
BIBSNet: A deep learning baby image brain segmentation network for MRI scans7
Contributions of neighborhood violent crime and perceived neighborhood safety to cognition and mental health in the adolescent brain cognitive development study7
Lateralization of the cerebral network of inhibition in children before and after cognitive training7
Intellectual ability and cortical homotopy development in children and adolescents7
Mapping the evolution of regional brain network efficiency and its association with cognitive abilities during the first twenty-eight months of life7
Atypical auditory cortical processing in ADHD during early and middle childhood7
Transdiagnostic divergent neural development of reward anticipation in early adolescents at risk for depression and psychosis7
Aperiodic and Hurst EEG exponents across early human brain development: A systematic review7
Social learning across adolescence: A Bayesian neurocognitive perspective7
Risk-related brain activation is linked to longitudinal changes in adolescent health risk behaviors7
Interactive effects of social media use and puberty on resting-state cortical activity and mental health symptoms7
Functional MRI responses to naturalistic stimuli are increasingly typical across early childhood7
Feeling left out in the Lunchroom: Neural mechanisms of ostracism vary across adolescence7
Contextualizing the adolescent social brain: Links to social health using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study7
Brain network connectivity during peer evaluation in adolescent females: Associations with age, pubertal hormones, timing, and status7
White matter microstructure in school-age children with down syndrome7
A developmental neuroscience perspective on youth contributions and challenges in a changing society7
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