OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is 13. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Biospecimens in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: Rationale and protocol	180
A data integration method for new advances in development cognitive neuroscience	152
Developmental aspects of fear generalization – A MEG study on neurocognitive correlates in adolescents versus adults	123
Characterizing different cognitive and neurobiological profiles in a community sample of children using a non-parametric approach: An fMRI study	112
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	95
Facial emotion processing and language during early-to-middle childhood development: An event related potential study	94
Music impacts brain cortical microstructural maturation in very preterm infants: A longitudinal diffusion MR imaging study	81
Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years	72
Charting the human amygdala development across childhood and adolescence: Manual and automatic segmentation	63
Developmental trajectories of gyrification and sulcal morphometrics in children and adolescents at high familial risk for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia	62
Identifying high school risk factors that forecast heavy drinking onset in understudied young adults	60
Neurocognitive risks of asthma during childhood	60
Optimal two-time point longitudinal models for estimating individual-level change: Asymptotic insights and practical implications	56
Measurement of emerging neurocognitive and language skills in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study	56
Early childhood family threat and longitudinal amygdala-mPFC circuit development: Examining cortical thickness and gray matter-white matter contrast	55
Advancing high quality longitudinal data collection: Implications for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study design and recruitment	52
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	50
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	50
Detection and analysis of cortical beta bursts in developmental EEG data	49
Irritability in early to middle childhood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with resting state amygdala and ventral striatum connectivity	46
Developing cortex is functionally pluripotent: Evidence from blindness	42
Corrigendum to “Multiple mechanisms regulate statistical learning of orthographic regularities in school-age children: Neurophysiological evidence” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 59C (2023) 101190]	42
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	40
Preterm neonates distinguish rhythm violation through a hierarchy of cortical processing	39
Fronto-amygdala resting state functional connectivity is associated with anxiety symptoms among adolescent girls more advanced in pubertal maturation	39

Hooked on a thought: Associations between rumination and neural responses to social rejection in adolescent girls	39
Microstructural development from 9 to 14 years: Evidence from the ABCD Study	38
A systematic review of childhood maltreatment and resting state functional connectivity	38
Identifying developmental changes in functional brain connectivity associated with cognitive functioning in children and adolescents with ADHD	37
The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods	37
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	36
Causation, trait correlation, and translation: Developmental brain imaging in research on neuropsychiatric conditions of childhood	36
Evaluating a novel high-density EEG sensor net structure for improving inclusivity in infants with curly or tightly coiled hair	35
The development of functional connectivity within the dorsal striatum from early childhood to adulthood	35
Diminished reinforcement sensitivity in adolescence is associated with enhanced response switching and reduced coding of choice probability in the medial frontal pole	34
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	31
Sex differences in neural mechanisms of social and non-social threat monitoring	30
Real-time monitoring of infant theta power during naturalistic social experiences	29
Relational victimization prospectively predicts increases in error-related brain activity and social anxiety in children and adolescents across two years	29
The HAPPE plus Event-Related (HAPPE+ER) software: A standardized preprocessing pipeline for event-related potential analyses	28
The influence of reward anticipation on conflict control in children and adolescents: Evidences from hierarchical drift-diffusion model and event-related potentials	28
Assessment of maternal health and behavior during pregnancy in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Rationale and approach	28
Longitudinal associations between language network characteristics in the infant brain and school-age reading abilities are mediated by early-developing phonological skills	28
Periodic and aperiodic neural activity displays age-dependent changes across early-to-middle childhood	27
Parental substance use history density and its influence on reward anticipation brain activation in late childhood and early adolescence	27
Pubertal development underlies optimization of inhibitory control through specialization of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex	27
Missing data approaches for longitudinal neuroimaging research: Examples from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) 27
Altered associations between white matter structure and psychopathology in previously institutionalized adolescents	27
Socioeconomic dissociations in the neural and cognitive bases of reading disorders	26
Subcortical and cerebellar volume differences in bilingual and monolingual children: An ABCD study	26
Longitudinal developmental trajectories of inhibition and white-matter maturation of the fronto-basal-ganglia circuits	26
Sing to me, baby: Infants show neural tracking and rhythmic movements to live and dynamic maternal singing	26
No statistical learning advantage in children over adults: Evidence from behaviour and neural entrainment	26
The developing visual system: A building block on the path to autism	26
The FreqTag toolbox: A principled approach to analyzing electrophysiological time series in frequency tagging paradigms	25
Aperiodic EEG and 7T MRSI evidence for maturation of E/I balance supporting the development of working memory through adolescence	25
Cortical Source Analysis of Event-Related Potentials: A Developmental Approach	25
Childhood trauma and brain structure in children and adolescents	24
Time-frequency analysis methods and their application in developmental EEG data	24
Developmental brain changes during puberty and associations with mental health problems	24
Measurement of gender and sexuality in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study	24
From vision to memory: How scene-sensitive regions support episodic memory formation during child development	23
Positive risk taking and neural sensitivity to risky decision making in adolescence	23
Neural correlates of theory of mind reasoning in congenitally blind children	23
Causal effects of physical activity and screen time on childhood intelligence via Mendelian randomization: The mediating role of intracranial volume	23
Beyond motor learning: Insights from infant magnetic resonance imaging on the critical role of the cerebellum in behavioral development	23
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]	23
Associations between multi-method latent factors of puberty and brain structure in adolescent girls	23
Coupling between prefrontal brain activity and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in infants and adults	22
Somatosensory prediction in the premature neonate brain	22
Innovative methods for remote assessment of neurobehavioral development	22
Prefrontal modulation of frustration-related physiology in preschool children ranging from low to severe irritability	22
Maturational changes in frontal EEG alpha and theta activity from infancy into early childhood and the relation with self-regulation in boys and girls	21

Behavioral and neural responses to social rejection: Individual differences in developmental trajectories across childhood and adolescence	21
Individual differences in delay discounting are associated with dorsal prefrontal cortex connectivity in children, adolescents, and adults	21
A six-year longitudinal study examining chronicity and timing of maltreatment effects on risk-related functional connectivity change across adolescence	21
Multi-site EEG studies in early infancy: Methods to enhance data quality	21
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	21
Behavioural inhibition and early neural processing of happy and angry faces interact to predict anxiety: a longitudinal ERP study	21
Developmental differences in EEG oscillations supporting the identification of novel word meaning from context	20
The importance of timing of socioeconomic disadvantage throughout development for depressive symptoms and brain structure	20
Gestational and postnatal age associations for striatal tissue iron deposition in early infancy	20
Disentangling the unique contributions of age, pubertal stage, and pubertal hormones to brain structure in childhood and adolescence	20
Measuring Early Experiences: Challenges and Future Directions	19
Childhood adversity is associated with reduced BOLD response in inhibitory control regions amongst preadolescents from the ABCD study	19
The role of socioeconomic status in shaping associations between sensory association cortex and prefrontal structure and implications for executive function	19
Early life stress and functional network topology in children	19
Cortical latency predicts reading fluency from late childhood to early adolescence	18
Exogenous testosterone administration is associated with differential neural response to unfamiliar peer’s and own caregiver’s voice in transgender adolescents	18
Interactive effects of participant and stimulus race on cognitive performance in youth: Insights from the ABCD study	18
Early experience unpredictability in child development as a model for understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: A translational neuroscience perspective	18
Temporal discounting for self and friends in adolescence: A fMRI study	18
Language exposure during infancy is negatively associated with white matter microstructure in the arcuate fasciculus	18
Automatic classification of ICA components from infant EEG using MARA	18
Brain developmental trajectories associated with childhood stuttering persistence and recovery	18
Adolescents’ neural sensitivity to high and low popularity: Longitudinal links to risk-taking and prosocial behavior	18
Developmental differences in brain functional connectivity during social interaction in middle childhood	18
Hemispheric dominance in reading system alters contribution to face processing lateralization across development	18
Sample size estimation for task-related functional MRI studies using Bayesian updating	18
White matter and literacy: A dynamic system in flux	17
Effects of single and combined exposure to lead and stress during pregnancy on offspring neurodevelopment	17
Corrigendum to “Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 50 (2021) 100984]	17
Developmental changes in dopamine-related neurophysiology and associations with adolescent substance use and incentive-boosted cognitive control	17
Neurodevelopmental oscillatory basis of speech processing in noise	17
Sex and pubertal variation in reward-related behavior and neural activation in early adolescents	17
Combined multi-session transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and language skills training improves individual gamma band activity and literacy skills in developmental dyslexia	17
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	17
A longitudinal study of the relationship between alcohol-related blackouts and attenuated structural brain development	17
The role (and limits) of developmental neuroscience in determining adolescents’ autonomy rights: The case for reproductive and voting rights	17
Rhythmic visual stimulation as a window into early brain development: A systematic review	16
No robust evidence for an interaction between early-life adversity and protective factors on global and regional brain volumes	16
Neurodevelopmental differences in task-evoked number network connectivity: Comparing symbolic and nonsymbolic number discrimination in children and adults	16
Longitudinal and prospective assessment of prenatal maternal sleep quality and associations with newborn hippocampal and amygdala volume	16
UNITY: A low-field magnetic resonance neuroimaging initiative to characterize neurodevelopment in low and middle-income settings	15
The automated preprocessing pipe-line for the estimation of scale-wise entropy from EEG data (APPLESEED): Development and validation for use in pediatric populations	15
Neural correlates of vicarious reward processing and peer victimization experiences in late childhood	15
Exploring neural correlates of behavioral and academic resilience among children in poverty	15
Behaviorally inhibited preschoolers experience stronger connectivity among social-related neural regions while interacting with a stranger	15
Delay discounting in adolescence depends on whom you wait for: Evidence from a functional neuroimaging study	15
Electrophysiological activity predicts children's reading ability through orthographic awareness: Evidence from a cross-sectional and longitudinal study	14
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	14
Increasing diversity in neuroimaging research: Participant-driven recommendations from a qualitative study of an under-represented sample	14
Immature excitatory neurons in the amygdala come of age during puberty	14
Dear reviewers: Responses to common reviewer critiques about infant neuroimaging studies	14
Advances on design considerations in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience	14
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	14
Preterm birth and neonatal white matter microstructure in in-vivo reconstructed fiber tracts among audiovisual integration brain regions	14
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
Associations among socioeconomic disadvantage, longitudinal changes in within-network connectivity, and academic outcomes in the ABCD study	14
Preschool sleep and depression interact to predict gray matter volume trajectories across late childhood to adolescence	14
The development and structure of the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study EEG protocol	14
Phonological decoding ability is associated with fiber density of the left arcuate fasciculus longitudinally across reading development	13
Developmentally sensitive multispectral cortical connectivity profiles serving visual selective attention	13
Development of cognitive control during adolescence: The integrative effects of family socioeconomic status and parenting behaviors	13
Towards a more inclusive and equitable developmental cognitive neuroscience	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
The Emotional Word-Emotional Face Stroop task in the ABCD study: Psychometric validation and associations with measures of cognition and psychopathology	13
A practical introduction to EEG Time-Frequency Principal Components Analysis (TF-PCA)	13
Longitudinal developmental trajectories do not follow cross-sectional age associations in hippocampal subfield and memory development	13
Mapping early corpus callosum development to identify neurodevelopmental risk	13
Associations between mesolimbic connectivity, and alcohol use from adolescence to adulthood	13
Excitatory and inhibitory neurochemical markers of anxiety in young females	13
Developmental coupling of brain iron and intrinsic activity in infants during the first 150 days	13