Nadege Roche-Labarbe, Johanna Bick, M. Catalina Camacho, Juliette Champaud, Haerin Chung, Lorenzo Fabrizi, Marta Korom, Emma T. Margolis, Julia Moser, Paige M. Nelson, Rebecca F. Schwarzlose, Marisa Spann, Lilla Zöllei
{"title":"Highlights from the 2024 annual meeting of the fetal, infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging Group (FIT’NG)","authors":"Nadege Roche-Labarbe, Johanna Bick, M. Catalina Camacho, Juliette Champaud, Haerin Chung, Lorenzo Fabrizi, Marta Korom, Emma T. Margolis, Julia Moser, Paige M. Nelson, Rebecca F. Schwarzlose, Marisa Spann, Lilla Zöllei","doi":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101814","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101814","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging Group (FIT'NG) is a scientific society advancing research on fetal, perinatal, infant, and early childhood brain and behavioral development through neuroimaging, encompassing theoretical, technical, fundamental, and clinical dimensions. It unites researchers across physics, neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, computer science, biomedical engineering, and medicine, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among leading laboratories in the field. The annual FIT'NG conference serves as a key forum for exchanging new ideas and methods, addressing shared challenges, and promoting best practices. It supports the society's mission of connecting complementary expertise and training the next generation of scientists in the field. This special issue compiles articles highlighting work presented at the FIT'NG conference held in September 2024 in Baltimore, MD, USA, offering an overview of recent advances in fetal, neonatal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging and their applications. A central focus of the FIT'NG community is identifying early markers of atypical neurodevelopment to support translational research and inform preventive and intervention strategies. Prematurity and other perinatal adversities, including environmental factors, serve as key models of atypical cognitive and social development and strong candidates for translational work. This focus has driven notable progress in technological and analytical methods, including high-precision functional and structural connectivity imaging, statistical innovations for large cohorts supporting hypothesis-driven longitudinal designs, and integrative modeling combining physiological and metabolic data with neuroimaging. Notably, this year's meeting featured significant advances in fetal research, increasingly enabled by deep learning, which now support individual-level analyses, paving the way for precision neuroscience and clinically relevant applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49083,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 101814"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149002744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abigail de Arellano, Aren Tucker, Andrew de Arellano, Yvette Rother, Catharine Mann, Lauren Butler, Matthew Albaugh, Nicholas Allgaier, Hugh Garavan, Alexandra Potter, Micah Johnson, Ethan Hunt, Priscila Gonçalves, Kate Flory
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Understanding adverse childhood experiences within the first decade of the ABCD study: A systematic review” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 80 (2026) 101740]","authors":"Abigail de Arellano, Aren Tucker, Andrew de Arellano, Yvette Rother, Catharine Mann, Lauren Butler, Matthew Albaugh, Nicholas Allgaier, Hugh Garavan, Alexandra Potter, Micah Johnson, Ethan Hunt, Priscila Gonçalves, Kate Flory","doi":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101792","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101792","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49083,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101792"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148686417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen J. Suss Jr, Adam Kimbler, Amanda E. Baker, Saima Akbar, Dana L. McMakin, Aaron T. Mattfeld
{"title":"Corrigendum to “In relation to anxiety severity, puberty moderates functional connectivity between the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex for negative relative to neutral stimuli during an emotional categorization task” [Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. 80 (2026), 101752]","authors":"Stephen J. Suss Jr, Adam Kimbler, Amanda E. Baker, Saima Akbar, Dana L. McMakin, Aaron T. Mattfeld","doi":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101762","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49083,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 101762"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148279622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica S. Flannery, Ashley C. Parr, Kristen A. Lindquist, Eva H. Telzer
{"title":"Corrigendum to Developmental changes in dopamine-related neurophysiology and associations with adolescent substance use and incentive-boosted cognitive control. [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci., Vol. 75 (2025): 1–12/101594]","authors":"Jessica S. Flannery, Ashley C. Parr, Kristen A. Lindquist, Eva H. Telzer","doi":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101734","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49083,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101734"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Camille M. Williams, David G. Weissman, Travis T. Mallard, Katie A. McLaughlin, K. Paige Harden
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Brain structures with stronger genetic associations are not less associated with family- and state-level economic contexts” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 70 (2024) 101455]","authors":"Camille M. Williams, David G. Weissman, Travis T. Mallard, Katie A. McLaughlin, K. Paige Harden","doi":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101720","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49083,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 101720"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147647164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Macarena Suárez-Pellicioni , Gavin Price , James R. Booth
{"title":"The association between longitudinal changes in inter-hemispheric IPS functional connectivity and math gains depends on children’s age and task requirements","authors":"Macarena Suárez-Pellicioni , Gavin Price , James R. Booth","doi":"10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101666","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101666","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The role of the approximate number system (ANS) in scaffolding symbolic mathematics remains unresolved. A prior neuroimaging study from our group (Suárez-Pellicioni & Booth, 2018) found no significant longitudinal effects of ANS acuity—indexed by intraparietal sulcus (IPS) activation—on gains in math fluency. However, the absence of age-specific analyses and exclusive focus on fluency, which emphasizes retrieval, may have contributed to these null findings. To address these limitations, the present study examined whether age moderates the relationship between inter-hemispheric IPS functional connectivity during a non-symbolic comparison task and math skill. Specifically, we tested: (1) baseline associations at Time 1 (T1); (2) whether T1 connectivity predicts gains in math skill over time (scaffolding hypothesis); and (3) whether changes in connectivity relate to longitudinal gains. Forty-eight children completed a dot comparison task in the scanner at T1 and again two years later. Standardized measures of subtraction skill and math fluency were collected at both time points. We measured general psychophysiological interaction (gPPI) between IPS seeds and contralateral IPS regions. For subtraction skill, we found no evidence of a concurrent association at T1 or predictive effects of T1 connectivity moderated by age. However, changes in connectivity over time revealed an age-dependent pattern: younger children showed gains linked to increased right-left parietal connectivity, while older children showed gains with decreased connectivity. This suggests a developmental shift from effortful integration to more efficient processing. Effects were specific to subtraction, not fluency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49083,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101666"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145898072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin Mammeri , Guillaume Legendre , Fiona Journal , Nathalie Fernandez , Helene Ruppen-Maret , Joanny Combey , Sophie Schwartz , Virginie Sterpenich
{"title":"Age and gender-related neurophysiological changes in sleep and wake states during childhood","authors":"Kevin Mammeri , Guillaume Legendre , Fiona Journal , Nathalie Fernandez , Helene Ruppen-Maret , Joanny Combey , Sophie Schwartz , Virginie Sterpenich","doi":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101681","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101681","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Brain maturation and sleep patterns evolve throughout childhood, intricately influencing cognitive functions. However, it remains unclear whether changes in sleep and cognition follow similar or distinct trajectories as a function of age and gender during childhood. We included 61 healthy children (30 boys and 31 girls), aged 5–12 years old, who completed a visual memory task and a sustained attention to response task (SART), before and after undergoing one night of polysomnography at home. Our findings revealed large age-related associations in girls, with N3 and REM durations decreasing and sleep spindle frequency during N2 increasing across development. Conversely, these patterns were not observed in boys. Moreover, a significant interaction showed a shift in delta power topography from posterior to anterior regions in girls compared to boys. Alongside these sleep changes, girls exhibited a predominant excitatory pattern of brain activity during wakefulness as evidenced by a reduction in resting EEG slope. Regarding cognition, we found a large correlation between the increase in sleep spindle frequency in girls and morning accuracy on the SART. Overnight memory consolidation did not vary with age or gender. Taken together, these findings suggest an earlier onset of brain maturation in girls, reflected by less deep sleep, faster sleep spindles, frontal shift in delta power, and greater cortical excitability during wakefulness. This pattern in girls challenges the notion that developmental modifications of sleep are minimal during childhood. How closely may these changes relate to puberty or timing remain to be established in future longitudinal studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49083,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101681"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146038622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bianca Santi , Matthew Soza , Greta Tuckute , Aalok Sathe , Evelina Fedorenko , Halie Olson
{"title":"An automated pipeline for efficiently generating standardized, child-friendly audiovisual language stimuli","authors":"Bianca Santi , Matthew Soza , Greta Tuckute , Aalok Sathe , Evelina Fedorenko , Halie Olson","doi":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101674","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101674","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Creating engaging language stimuli suitable for children can be difficult and time-consuming. To simplify and accelerate the process, we developed an automated pipeline that combines existing audio generation and animation tools to generate customizable audiovisual stimuli from text input. The pipeline consists of two components: the first uses Google Cloud Text-to-Speech to generate audio stimuli from text, and the second uses Adobe Character Animator to create video stimuli in which an animated character “speaks” the audio with speech-aligned mouth movements. We evaluated the pipeline with two stimulus sets, including an acoustic comparison between generated audio stimuli and existing human-recorded stimuli. The pipeline is efficient, taking less than 2 min to generate each audiovisual stimulus, and fewer than 9 % of stimuli needed to be regenerated. The audio generation component is particularly fast, taking less than 1 s per stimulus. By leveraging automated tools for language stimulus creation, this pipeline can facilitate developmental research on language and other domains of cognition, especially in cognitive neuroscience studies that require large numbers of stimuli.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49083,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101674"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145979538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}