Cascades in language acquisition: Re-thinking the linear model of development

LX Guo, A Pace, LR Masek, RM Golinkoff… - Advances in child …, 2023 - Elsevier
The first 5 years of life are characterized by incredible growth across domains of child
development. Drawing from over 50 years of seminal research, this chapter contextualizes …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling influences of dyslexia, development, and reading experience on effective brain connectivity in children

SV Di Pietro, D Willinger, N Frei, C Lutz, S Coraj… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Altered brain connectivity between regions of the reading network has been associated with
reading difficulties. However, it remains unclear whether connectivity differences between …

[HTML][HTML] UNITY: A low-field magnetic resonance neuroimaging initiative to characterize neurodevelopment in low and middle-income settings

F Abate, A Adu-Amankwah, KA Ae-Ngibise… - Developmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Measures of physical growth, such as weight and height have long been the predominant
outcomes for monitoring child health and evaluating interventional outcomes in public health …

[HTML][HTML] Resting-state functional connectivity identifies individuals and predicts age in 8-to-26-month-olds

O Kardan, S Kaplan, MD Wheelock, E Feczko… - Developmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) measured with fMRI has been used to
characterize functional brain maturation in typically and atypically develo** children and …

Patterns of neural functional connectivity in infants at familial risk of developmental dyslexia

X Yu, S Ferradal, J Dunstan, C Carruthers… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Developmental dyslexia is a heritable learning disability affecting 7% to 10% of
the general population and can have detrimental impacts on mental health and vocational …

Multifaceted atlases of the human brain in its infancy

S Ahmad, Y Wu, Z Wu, KH Thung, S Liu, W Lin, G Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Brain atlases are spatial references for integrating, processing, and analyzing brain features
gathered from different individuals, sources, and scales. Here we introduce a collection of …

Map** brain function in adults and young children during naturalistic viewing with high‐density diffuse optical tomography

K Tripathy, M Fogarty, AM Svoboda, ML Schroeder… - 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human studies of early brain development have been limited by extant neuroimaging
methods. MRI scanners present logistical challenges for imaging young children, while …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging brain science for impactful advocacy and policymaking: The synergistic partnership between developmental cognitive neuroscientists and a …

N Gaab, N Duggan - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024 - Elsevier
Reading proficiency is crucial for academic, vocational, and economic success and has
been closely linked to health outcomes. Unfortunately, in the United States, a concerning …

The role of visual experience in individual differences of brain connectivity

S Sen, NN Khalsa, N Tong, S Ovadia-Caro… - Journal of …, 2022 - jneurosci.org
Visual cortex organization is highly consistent across individuals. But to what degree does
this consistency depend on life experience, in particular sensory experience? In this study …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal associations between language network characteristics in the infant brain and school-age reading abilities are mediated by early-develo** …

X Tang, TK Turesky, ES Escalante, MY Loh… - Developmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reading acquisition is a prolonged learning process relying on language development
starting in utero. Behavioral longitudinal studies reveal prospective associations between …