The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience brings together the leading developmental cognitive neuroscientists in the field that work on understanding human development, and the complex interplay of genetic, environmental, and brain maturational factors that shape social and cognitive functioning in development. It includes chapters on new, emerging research areas that show promise for understanding both brain and behaviour in development, such as nutrition and the microbiome gut-brain axis and sleep. Looking beyond early developmental changes, this handbook also places importance on the period of adolescence, which is an important developmental juncture. By assuming complexity from the outset, the developmental cognitive neuroscience research approach provides much needed insights into both the initial set-up of brain networks and cognitive mechanisms, and also into adaptability across the developmental trajectory. This is important not only for scientists studying typical and atypical development, but also for interventional work looking for critical or sensitive periods where interventions would be most effective. The developmental cognitive neuroscience research approach intersects nature and nurture and considers both health and disease models. It also focuses on understanding the complexity of human development, necessitating a multi-level and multi-factor research approach to grasp change and plasticity which, by definition, is multidisciplinary. The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is a landmark volume, providing the reader with a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of current research in the field, whilst highlighting current gaps and directions for future research.

Dr Kathrin Cohen Kadosh is an associate professor in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Surrey, where she is head of the Social Brain & Development Lab and the multidisciplinary Brain Nutrition Gut Microbiome group. She read for her PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London and received postdoctoral training at University College London, King's College London, the National Institutes of Health (USA) and the University of Oxford.
Her work combines behavioural assessments and brain-imaging techniques to understand how improving cognitive abilities and changes in brain function and structure shape the brain network and subsequent behaviour. Another line of her work investigates the role of the microbiome gut-brain axis on mental health and well-being in development. She has held several national and international research grants, and her work has been published in reputed academic journals and textbook chapters and she serves as a reviewer on international research panels.

- 1: Introduction to Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: current state-of-the art and new frontiers - 2: The Neural Reuse Hypothesis - 3: Electrophysiology in developmental populations: Key methods and findings - 4: Longitudinal structural and functional brain development in childhood and adolescence - 5: Diffusion imaging perspectives on brain development in childhood and adolescence - 6: Magnetoencephalography and developmental cognitive neuroscience - 7: Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) - 8: Behavioural testing and eye-tracking technology - 9: Recognizing Facial Identity: Prolonged Development During Infancy and Childhood - 10: Preverbal Categorization and its Neural Correlates: Methods and Findings - 11: Motor Development in Infants and Children - 12: Developmental Coordination Disorder - 13: Sleep development in infancy and childhood - 14: Development of the microbiome-gut-brain axis and its effect on behaviour - 15: The Role of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Neurodevelopment and Mental Health in Childhood and Adolescence - 16: Attention in infancy and childhood - 17: The effects of socioeconomic adversity on the development of brain systems for attention and self-regulation - 18: The role of attention in the development of creativity - 19: Training cognition with video games - 20: Attention biases in children and adolescents - 21: Memory Development - 22: Language development in infancy - 23: Neural basis of speech and language impairments in development: The case of developmental language disorder - 24: Multi-language acquisition and cognitive development - 25: Numerical and mathematical abilities in children: behavioral and neural correlates - 26: Cognitive neuroscience of dyscalculia and math learning disabilities - 27: Cognitive Neuroscience of Developmental Dyslexia - 28: Neurocognitive underpinnings of social development during childhood - 29: Puberty and social brain development - 30: Neurocognitive Developmental Changes in Trust and Reciprocity Across Adolescence - 31: Neurobiological susceptibility to peer influence in adolescence - 32: Early cognitive and brain development in infants and children with ASD - 33: Social cognitive and interactive abilities in autism - 34: Affective disorders in development - 35: Depression in young people: cognitive biases and targets for intervention - 36: Sleep, anxiety and depression in adolescence: A developmental cognitive neuroscience approach - 37: Borderline personality disorder in development - 38: Psychotic experiences, cognition, and neurodevelopment - 39: Brain development in deaf children or children of deaf parents