OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is 11. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	148
Identifying high school risk factors that forecast heavy drinking onset in understudied young adults	118
Developmental trajectories of gyrification and sulcal morphometrics in children and adolescents at high familial risk for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia	106
Music impacts brain cortical microstructural maturation in very preterm infants: A longitudinal diffusion MR imaging study	78
Neurocognitive risks of asthma during childhood	74
Distinct theta oscillation coherence patterns during visual selective attention in children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	57
A data integration method for new advances in development cognitive neuroscience	56
Characterizing different cognitive and neurobiological profiles in a community sample of children using a non-parametric approach: An fMRI study	55
Biospecimens in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: Rationale and protocol	48
Neurodevelopmental correlates of emotion regulation in adolescence: An accelerated longitudinal study	48
Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years	48
Developmental aspects of fear generalization – A MEG study on neurocognitive correlates in adolescents versus adults	48
Developing cortex is functionally pluripotent: Evidence from blindness	47
Fronto-amygdala resting state functional connectivity is associated with anxiety symptoms among adolescent girls more advanced in pubertal maturation	46
Corrigendum to “Previous institutionalization is associated with elevated functional connectivity between the nucleus accumbens and amygdala during aversive learning” [Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. 76 (2025)	45
Irritability in early to middle childhood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with resting state amygdala and ventral striatum connectivity	45
Corrigendum to “Multiple mechanisms regulate statistical learning of orthographic regularities in school-age children: Neurophysiological evidence” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 59C (2023) 101190]	43
Optimal two-time point longitudinal models for estimating individual-level change: Asymptotic insights and practical implications	43
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	42
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	42
Hooked on a thought: Associations between rumination and neural responses to social rejection in adolescent girls	42
Advancing high quality longitudinal data collection: Implications for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study design and recruitment	41
Measurement of emerging neurocognitive and language skills in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study	40
Early childhood family threat and longitudinal amygdala-mPFC circuit development: Examining cortical thickness and gray matter-white matter contrast	39
Utilizing functional neuroimaging to study early language development	37

Preterm neonates distinguish rhythm violation through a hierarchy of cortical processing	37
The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods	35
A systematic review of childhood maltreatment and resting state functional connectivity	35
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	35
Diminished reinforcement sensitivity in adolescence is associated with enhanced response switching and reduced coding of choice probability in the medial frontal pole	34
Causation, trait correlation, and translation: Developmental brain imaging in research on neuropsychiatric conditions of childhood	34
Relational victimization prospectively predicts increases in error-related brain activity and social anxiety in children and adolescents across two years	33
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	33
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	32
Influences of age and pubertal development on P300 amplitude trajectory across two years in female adolescents	32
Understanding barriers to adolescent participation in developmental neuroscience research	30
Chronic home radon exposure impacts the development of oscillatory dynamics serving visuospatial attention	29
Real-time monitoring of infant theta power during naturalistic social experiences	28
Identifying developmental changes in functional brain connectivity associated with cognitive functioning in children and adolescents with ADHD	28
The influence of reward anticipation on conflict control in children and adolescents: Evidences from hierarchical drift-diffusion model and event-related potentials	27
Assessment of maternal health and behavior during pregnancy in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Rationale and approach	26
Evaluating a novel high-density EEG sensor net structure for improving inclusivity in infants with curly or tightly coiled hair	26
The development of functional connectivity within the dorsal striatum from early childhood to adulthood	25
Pubertal development underlies optimization of inhibitory control through specialization of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex	25
The HAPPE plus Event-Related (HAPPE+ER) software: A standardized preprocessing pipeline for event-related potential analyses	25
Parental substance use history density and its influence on reward anticipation brain activation in late childhood and early adolescence	24
Developmental differences in hippocampal long-axis contributions to memory precision	24
Longitudinal associations between language network characteristics in the infant brain and school-age reading abilities are mediated by early-developing phonological skills	24
Longitudinal developmental trajectories of inhibition and white-matter maturation of the fronto-basal-ganglia circuits	24
Neural correlates of theory of mind reasoning in congenitally blind children	23
From vision to memory: How scene-sensitive regions support episodic memory formation during child development	23
Missing data approaches for longitudinal neuroimaging research: Examples from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) 23
Aperiodic EEG and 7T MRSI evidence for maturation of E/I balance supporting the development of working memory through adolescence	23
The developing visual system: A building block on the path to autism	22
Altered associations between white matter structure and psychopathology in previously institutionalized adolescents	22
Childhood trauma and brain structure in children and adolescents	22
Socioeconomic dissociations in the neural and cognitive bases of reading disorders	22
No statistical learning advantage in children over adults: Evidence from behaviour and neural entrainment	22
Developmental brain changes during puberty and associations with mental health problems	21
Prefrontal modulation of frustration-related physiology in preschool children ranging from low to severe irritability	21
Subcortical and cerebellar volume differences in bilingual and monolingual children: An ABCD study	21
Positive risk taking and neural sensitivity to risky decision making in adolescence	21
Sing to me, baby: Infants show neural tracking and rhythmic movements to live and dynamic maternal singing	21
Preterm birth, socioeconomic status, and white matter development across childhood	21
Anterior Insula Reactivity to Loss Moderates the Association Between Trait Impulsivity and Future Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents	21
Coupling between prefrontal brain activity and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in infants and adults	20
Causal effects of physical activity and screen time on childhood intelligence via Mendelian randomization: The mediating role of intracranial volume	20
Maturational changes in frontal EEG alpha and theta activity from infancy into early childhood and the relation with self-regulation in boys and girls	20
Somatosensory prediction in the premature neonate brain	20
Multi-site EEG studies in early infancy: Methods to enhance data quality	20
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
A six-year longitudinal study examining chronicity and timing of maltreatment effects on risk-related functional connectivity change across adolescence	20
Behavioural inhibition and early neural processing of happy and angry faces interact to predict anxiety: a longitudinal ERP study	19
Associations between multi-method latent factors of puberty and brain structure in adolescent girls	19
Individual differences in delay discounting are associated with dorsal prefrontal cortex connectivity in children, adolescents, and adults	19

Beyond motor learning: Insights from infant magnetic resonance imaging on the critical role of the cerebellum in behavioral development	19
Behavioral and neural responses to social rejection: Individual differences in developmental trajectories across childhood and adolescence	19
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	18
Gestational and postnatal age associations for striatal tissue iron deposition in early infancy	18
Adolescents’ neural sensitivity to high and low popularity: Longitudinal links to risk-taking and prosocial behavior	18
Cortical latency predicts reading fluency from late childhood to early adolescence	18
Intergenerational neuroimaging’s present and future: Considering sex as a biological variable to enhance knowledge of brain development through parent–offspring similarity	18
Language exposure during infancy is negatively associated with white matter microstructure in the arcuate fasciculus	18
The importance of timing of socioeconomic disadvantage throughout development for depressive symptoms and brain structure	18
Exogenous testosterone administration is associated with differential neural response to unfamiliar peer’s and own caregiver’s voice in transgender adolescents	18
Childhood adversity is associated with reduced BOLD response in inhibitory control regions amongst preadolescents from the ABCD study	17
Disentangling the unique contributions of age, pubertal stage, and pubertal hormones to brain structure in childhood and adolescence	17
Temporal discounting for self and friends in adolescence: A fMRI study	17
The role of socioeconomic status in shaping associations between sensory association cortex and prefrontal structure and implications for executive function	17
Measuring early experiences: Challenges and future directions	17
Developmental differences in EEG oscillations supporting the identification of novel word meaning from context	17
Academic success and mental health: The paradox of Frontoparietal‐Default Mode Network coupling among children facing poverty	16
Early life stress and functional network topology in children	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 report	16
Effects of single and combined exposure to lead and stress during pregnancy on offspring neurodevelopment	16
Neurodevelopmental oscillatory basis of speech processing in noise	16
Brain developmental trajectories associated with childhood stuttering persistence and recovery	16
Interactive effects of participant and stimulus race on cognitive performance in youth: Insights from the ABCD study	16
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
Developmental changes in dopamine-related neurophysiology and associations with adolescent substance use and incentive-boosted cognitive control	15
Sex and pubertal variation in reward-related behavior and neural activation in early adolescents	15
No robust evidence for an interaction between early-life adversity and protective factors on global and regional brain volumes	15
Hemispheric dominance in reading system alters contribution to face processing lateralization across development	15
Sample size estimation for task-related functional MRI studies using Bayesian updating	15
The role (and limits) of developmental neuroscience in determining adolescents’ autonomy rights: The case for reproductive and voting rights	15
White matter and literacy: A dynamic system in flux	15
Combined multi-session transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and language skills training improves individual gamma band activity and literacy skills in developmental dyslexia	15
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	14
Increasing diversity in neuroimaging research: Participant-driven recommendations from a qualitative study of an under-represented sample	14
A longitudinal study of the relationship between alcohol-related blackouts and attenuated structural brain development	14
UNITY: A low-field magnetic resonance neuroimaging initiative to characterize neurodevelopment in low and middle-income settings	14
Neural correlates of vicarious reward processing and peer victimization experiences in late childhood	14
The automated preprocessing pipe-line for the estimation of scale-wise entropy from EEG data (APPLESEED): Development and validation for use in pediatric populations	14
Neurodevelopmental differences in task-evoked number network connectivity: Comparing symbolic and nonsymbolic number discrimination in children and adults	14
Longitudinal and prospective assessment of prenatal maternal sleep quality and associations with newborn hippocampal and amygdala volume	14
Delay discounting in adolescence depends on whom you wait for: Evidence from a functional neuroimaging study	14
Precision functional mapping of the individual human brain near birth	14
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	13
Longitudinal analysis of the ABCD® study	13
Leveraging mixed-effects location scale models to assess the ERP mismatch negativity’s psychometric properties and trial-by-trial neural variability in toddler-mother dyads	13
Rhythmic visual stimulation as a window into early brain development: A systematic review	13
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	13
Developmental coupling of brain iron and intrinsic activity in infants during the first 150 days	13
Behaviorally inhibited preschoolers experience stronger connectivity among social-related neural regions while interacting with a stranger	13
Electrophysiological activity predicts children's reading ability through orthographic awareness: Evidence from a cross-sectional and longitudinal study	13
A practical introduction to EEG Time-Frequency Principal Components Analysis (TF-PCA)	13
Advances on design considerations in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience	12
Associations among socioeconomic disadvantage, longitudinal changes in within-network connectivity, and academic outcomes in the ABCD study	12
The impact of a monthly unconditional cash transfer on child brain activity: A 4-year follow-up	12
Immature excitatory neurons in the amygdala come of age during puberty	12
Associations between mesolimbic connectivity, and alcohol use from adolescence to adulthood	12
Phonological decoding ability is associated with fiber density of the left arcuate fasciculus longitudinally across reading development	11
Developmentally sensitive multispectral cortical connectivity profiles serving visual selective attention	11
Mapping early corpus callosum development to identify neurodevelopmental risk	11
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. Neuros	11
Development of cognitive control during adolescence: The integrative effects of family socioeconomic status and parenting behaviors	11
Excitatory and inhibitory neurochemical markers of anxiety in young females	11
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	11
The development and structure of the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study EEG protocol	11
Preterm birth and neonatal white matter microstructure in in-vivo reconstructed fiber tracts among audiovisual integration brain regions	11
Adolescent brain cognitive development study: Longitudinal methods, developmental findings, and associations with environmental risk factors	11