OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is 12. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Infant neural processing of mother’s face is associated with falling reactivity in the first year of life	149
Metacontrol instructions lead to adult-like event segmentation in adolescents	136
Developmental trajectories of gyrification and sulcal morphometrics in children and adolescents at high familial risk for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia	131
Interpretation of individual differences in computational neuroscience using a latent input approach	112
Responsible use of population neuroscience data: Towards standards of accountability and integrity	94
Structure-function coupling within the reward network in preschool children predicts executive functioning in later childhood	86
Characterizing the dimensional structure of early-life adversity in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	82
Adversity is Linked with Decreased Parent-Child Behavioral and Neural Synchrony	76
Effects of single and combined exposure to lead and stress during pregnancy on offspring neurodevelopment	71
Developmental aspects of fear generalization – A MEG study on neurocognitive correlates in adolescents versus adults	65
Neurocognitive basis of model-based decision making and its metacontrol in childhood	59
Immune signaling as a node of interaction between systems that sex-specifically develop during puberty and adolescence	59
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	57
Anatomical correlates of category-selective visual regions have distinctive signatures of connectivity in neonates	54
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	54
Distinct multivariate structural brain profiles are related to variations in short- and long-delay memory consolidation across children and young adults	53
Music impacts brain cortical microstructural maturation in very preterm infants: A longitudinal diffusion MR imaging study	52
White matter and literacy: A dynamic system in flux	49
Error-monitoring: A predictor of future reading skills? A 3-year longitudinal study in children	47
The role (and limits) of developmental neuroscience in determining adolescents’ autonomy rights: The case for reproductive and voting rights	47
Identifying high school risk factors that forecast heavy drinking onset in understudied young adults	46
Differential functional reorganization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways following childhood hemispherectomy	45
Sample size estimation for task-related functional MRI studies using Bayesian updating	42
A data integration method for new advances in development cognitive neuroscience	40
Remote data collection of infant activity and sleep patterns via wearable sensors in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD)	40

Neurodevelopmental differences in child and adult number processing: An fMRI-based validation of the triple code model	39
Frontal EEG asymmetry in infants observing separation and comforting events: The role of infants’ attachment relationship	37
Modeling longitudinal changes in hippocampal subfields and relations with memory from early- to mid-childhood	36
Individual associations of adolescent alcohol use disorder versus cannabis use disorder symptoms in neural prediction error signaling and the response to novelty	36
Rich-club structure contributes to individual variance of reading skills via feeder connections in children with reading disabilities	36
The origins and development of speech envelope tracking during the first months of life	35
The development of neural responses to emotional faces: A review of evidence from event-related potentials during early and middle childhood	35
Leveraging big data to map neurodevelopmental trajectories in pediatric anxiety	35
Characterizing reward system neural trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood	33
Different forms of childhood maltreatment have different impacts on the neural systems involved in the representation of reinforcement value	33
Facial emotion processing and language during early-to-middle childhood development: An event related potential study	31
Homogenization of face neural representation during development	31
Neurodevelopmental oscillatory basis of speech processing in noise	30
Sound omission related brain responses in children	30
A practical guide to applying machine learning to infant EEG data	30
Do aggregate, multimodal structural neuroimaging measures replicate regional developmental differences observed in highly cited cellular histological studies?	30
Social-interactive reward elicits similar neural response in autism and typical development and predicts future social experiences	28
Characterizing different cognitive and neurobiological profiles in a community sample of children using a non-parametric approach: An fMRI study	28
Brain developmental trajectories associated with childhood stuttering persistence and recovery	27
Association of psychosocial adversity and social information processing in children raised in a low-resource setting: an fNIRS study	27
Differential responses toward conditioned and unconditioned stimuli, but decreased hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responsiveness in neonatal hippocampal lesioned monkeys	27
Continuity versus change in latent profiles of emotion regulation and working memory during adolescence	27
Using synthetic MR images for distortion correction	26
A biologically informed polygenic score of neuronal plasticity moderates the association between cognitive aptitudes and cortical thickness in adolescents	26
The role of brain structure in the association between pubertal timing and depression risk in an early adolescent sample (the ABCD Study®): A registered report	26
Ten-month-old infants’ neural tracking of naturalistic speech is not facilitated by the speaker’s eye gaze	25
Neural markers of familial risk for depression – A systematic review	25
Component-specific developmental trajectories of ERP indices of cognitive control in early childhood	24
Neural specialization to English words in Chinese children: Joint contribution of age and English reading abilities	24
Mother-infant social gaze dynamics relate to infant brain activity and word segmentation	24
Within arms reach: Physical proximity shapes mother-infant language exchanges in real-time	24
Effects of institutional rearing and foster care intervention on error monitoring and externalizing behaviors in adolescence	24
It takes a village: A multi-brain approach to studying multigenerational family communication	24
Infant embodied attention in context: Feasibility of home-based head-mounted eye tracking in early infancy	24
MRI morphometry of the anterior and posterior cerebellar vermis and its relationship to sensorimotor and cognitive functions in children	23
Sex and pubertal variation in reward-related behavior and neural activation in early adolescents	23
Investment, integration, and innovation: Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion across the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study consortium	23
Experience-dependent neurodevelopment of self-regulation in adolescence	22
Biospecimens in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: Rationale and protocol	21
Infant and early childhood physical health assessments in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study	21
Corrigendum to “Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 50 (2021) 100984]	21
Threat experiences moderate the link between hippocampus volume and depression symptoms prospectively in adolescence	21
Assessing prenatal and early childhood social and environmental determinants of health in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD)	21
Neural processing of speech sounds at premature and term birth: ERPs and MMR between 32 and 42 weeks of gestation	21
Establishing a model of peer support for pregnant persons with a substance use disorder as an innovative approach for engaging participants in the healthy brain and child development study	21
Corrigendum to “Microstructural development from 9 to 14 years: Evidence from the ABCD Study” [Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. 53 (2022) 101044]	21
A comprehensive systematic review of fMRI studies on brain connectivity in healthy children and adolescents: Current insights and future directions	21
Hemispheric dominance in reading system alters contribution to face processing lateralization across development	21
Interactive effects of participant and stimulus race on cognitive performance in youth: Insights from the ABCD study	21
From developmental neuroscience to policy: A novel framework based on participatory research	21

Combined multi-session transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and language skills training improves individual gamma band activity and literacy skills in developmental dyslexia	21
Resting-state functional connectivity identifies individuals and predicts age in 8-to-26-month-olds	20
Enhancing reproducibility in developmental EEG research: BIDS, cluster-based permutation tests, and effect sizes	20
Frontal corticostriatal functional connectivity reveals task positive and negative network dysregulation in relation to ADHD, sex, and inhibitory control	20
Neural activation to loss and reward among alcohol naive adolescents who later initiate alcohol use	20
Co-developing sleep-wake and sensory foundations for cognition in the human fetus and newborn	20
Charting the human amygdala development across childhood and adolescence: Manual and automatic segmentation	20
Behavioral and cognitive correlates of the aperiodic (1/f-like) exponent of the EEG power spectrum in adolescents with and without ADHD	20
Parental socioeconomic status is linked to cortical microstructure and language abilities in children and adolescents	20
Longitudinal changes in amygdala, hippocampus and cortisol development following early caregiving adversity	20
Automatic classification of ICA components from infant EEG using MARA	19
An update on the assessment of culture and environment in the ABCD Study®: Emerging literature and protocol updates over three measurement waves	19
Effects of prenatal cannabis exposure on developmental trajectory of cognitive ability and brain volumes in the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study	19
The development of peak alpha frequency from infancy to adolescence and its role in visual temporal processing: A meta-analysis	19
Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years	19
Decreased resting-state alpha peak frequency in children and adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders or prenatal alcohol exposure	19
Early experience unpredictability in child development as a model for understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: A translational neuroscience perspective	19
Frontal alpha asymmetry predicts subsequent social decision-making: A dynamic multilevel, neural, and developmental perspective	18
Development of cortical folds in the human brain: An attempt to review biological hypotheses, early neuroimaging investigations and functional correlates	18
A longitudinal study of the relationship between alcohol-related blackouts and attenuated structural brain development	18
Measurement of emerging neurocognitive and language skills in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study	18
Familial risk for depression moderates neural circuitry in healthy preadolescents to predict adolescent depression symptoms in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	18
Advancing high quality longitudinal data collection: Implications for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study design and recruitment	18
Cognitive control processes and emotion regulation in adolescence: Examining the impact of affective inhibition and heart-rate-variability on emotion regulation dynamics in daily life	18
Longitudinal associations between adolescent catch-up sleep, white-matter maturation and internalizing problems	18
The ABCD stop signal data: Response to Bissett et al.	18
Navigating ethical and legal challenges in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Lessons learned from the ethics, law, policy working group	18
Early childhood family threat and longitudinal amygdala-mPFC circuit development: Examining cortical thickness and gray matter-white matter contrast	17
Neural correlates of vicarious reward processing and peer victimization experiences in late childhood	17
Immature neurons in the primate amygdala: Changes with early development and disrupted early environment	17
Delay discounting in adolescence depends on whom you wait for: Evidence from a functional neuroimaging study	17
The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods	17
Associations between EEG trajectories, family income, and cognitive abilities over the first two years of life	17
Increasing diversity in neuroimaging research: Participant-driven recommendations from a qualitative study of an under-represented sample	17
How will developmental neuroimaging contribute to the prediction of neurodevelopmental or psychiatric disorders? Challenges and opportunities	17
The development of the relationship between auditory and visual neural sensitivity and autonomic arousal from 6 m to 12 m	17
Fronto-amygdala resting state functional connectivity is associated with anxiety symptoms among adolescent girls more advanced in pubertal maturation	16
Structural neural connectivity correlates with pre-reading abilities in preschool children	16
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 children	16
Neurophysiological mechanisms of cognition in the developing brain: Insights from intracranial EEG studies	16
Developing cortex is functionally pluripotent: Evidence from blindness	15
The association of maternal-infant interactive behavior, dyadic frontal alpha asymmetry, and maternal anxiety in a smartphone-adapted still face paradigm	15
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	15
Leveraging brain science for impactful advocacy and policymaking: The synergistic partnership between developmental cognitive neuroscientists and a parent-led grassroots movement to drive dyslexia pre	15
Rhythmic visual stimulation as a window into early brain development: A systematic review	15
Why behaviour matters: Studying inter-brain coordination during child-caregiver interaction	15
Development of brain white matter and math computation ability in children born very preterm and full-term	15
Hooked on a thought: Associations between rumination and neural responses to social rejection in adolescent girls	15
Multi-level fMRI analysis applied to hemispheric specialization in the language network, functional areas, and their behavioral correlations in the ABCD sample	15
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	15
The structural covariance of reading-related brain regions in adults and children with typical or poor reading skills	15
Temporal and topographical changes in theta power between middle childhood and adolescence during sentence comprehension	14
More efficient formation of longer-term representations for word forms at birth can be linked to better language skills at 2 years	14
Puberty and risky decision-making in male adolescents	14
Age-related changes in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation are associated with daily prosocial behaviors two years later	14
No robust evidence for an interaction between early-life adversity and protective factors on global and regional brain volumes	14
Irritability in early to middle childhood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with resting state amygdala and ventral striatum connectivity	14
A meta-analytic study of the effects of early maternal separation on cognitive flexibility in rodent offspring	14
Premature white matter microstructure in female children with a history of concussion	14
Sports participation & childhood neurocognitive development	14
Mother-child similarity in brain morphology: A comparison of structural characteristics of the brain’s reading network	14
Increased integration between default mode and task-relevant networks in children with ADHD is associated with impaired response control	13
Corrigendum to “Multiple mechanisms regulate statistical learning of orthographic regularities in school-age children: Neurophysiological evidence” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 59C (2023) 101190]	13
Neurodevelopmental differences in task-evoked number network connectivity: Comparing symbolic and nonsymbolic number discrimination in children and adults	13
The automated preprocessing pipe-line for the estimation of scale-wise entropy from EEG data (APPLESEED): Development and validation for use in pediatric populations	13
Abnormal Granger causal connectivity based on altered gray matter volume and associated neurotransmitters of adolescents with internet gaming disorder revealed by a multimodal neuroimaging study	13
Reward-related neural correlates of early life stress in school-aged children	13
Exploring neural correlates of behavioral and academic resilience among children in poverty	13
Adolescents’ affective and neural responses to parental praise and criticism	13
Measuring the temporal dynamics of inter-personal neural entrainment in continuous child-adult EEG hyperscanning data	12
Maternal parenting behavior and functional connectivity development in children: A longitudinal fMRI study	12
Structural development of cortical lobes during the first 6 months of life in infant macaques	12
Cell adhesion presence during adolescence controls the architecture of projection-defined prefrontal cortical neurons and reward-related action strategies later in life	12
A two-hit adversity model in developing rats reveals sex-specific impacts on prefrontal cortex structure and behavior	12
Very preterm birth and cognitive control: The mediating roles of motor skills and physical fitness	12
Decomposing complex links between the childhood environment and brain structure in school-aged youth	12