Advances in neuroimaging have ushered in a new era of developmental neuroscience.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is particularly well suited for pediatric studies because it …

This article argues that one dominant position in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and
philosophy about how genetic disorders point to the innate specification of dissociated …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

Young children can quickly and intuitively represent the number of objects in a visual scene
through the Approximate Number System (ANS). The precision of the ANS–indexed as the …

Purpose In this article, the authors present a tutorial on the use of developmental trajectories
for studying language and cognitive impairments in developmental disorders and compare …

This review critically examines the research findings which characterize the cognitive,
behavioral, and neuroanatomical features of Williams syndrome (WS). This article analyzes …

Resilience and adaptation in the face of early genetic or environmental risk has become a
major interest in child psychiatry over recent years. However, we still remain far from an …

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into
a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the way are so complex that any attempt to …

Neuroconstructivism is a theoretical framework focusing on the construction of
representations in the develo** brain. Cognitive development is explained as emerging …

The neuro-developmental disorders of Williams syndrome (WS) and autism can reveal key
components of social cognition. Eye-tracking techniques were applied in two tasks exploring …