Children

…is limited, especially concerning children and adolescents' ability to disengage cognitive control for skill automation. To address this gap, we measured neural activity

…rule selection process in 55 children aged 7 to 10 years (mean age 8.7 ± 0.9 years, 33 girls

The field of developmental neuroscience is expanding rapidly, yet neuroimaging studies in children remain less common than in adults. Movie-watching paradigms may overcome this and further reduce head motion while increasing compliance when working with younger children. Here we characterize neural responses associated with emotion processing and regulation, utilizing a newly developed fMRI movie-watching paradigm. 55 children (6-14 years, 30 female) and 63 young adults (18-30 years, 31 female) watched a 12-minute montage of clips from the movie "Inside Out" (Docter & Del Carmen, 2015) dur

…incomplete viewing conditions in children with ASD and neurotypical (NT) controls. Data collection is ongoing; currently 7 ASD participants and 7 NT controls, ages 7-14 years have completed the perceptual closure paradigm during EEG recording. Participants are shown a ser

…While children show greater switch costs than adults, theorized to be partly due to less distinct task-set representations, age differences can be mitigated by training. Studies in adults suggest that neural task-set representations become more distinct with training, enabling more effective processing in the la

…to identify and treat curably blind children in India and then study how their brain learns to make sense of the v

…inferential abilities that young children show not only in how they learn from others but also in how they help o

The recent pandemic arrived at a time when mental health of children and young people was deteriorating, particular among teenage girls and young women. Lockdown produced a plethora of mental health surveys, but very few of these had pre-pandemic data. This talk will summarise the current evidence of how covid-19 seems to have affected the mental health of children and young people from various studies in the UK.