The journal publishes theoretical and research papers on cognitive brain development, from infancy through childhood and adolescence and into adulthood. It covers neurocognitive development and neurocognitive processing in both typical and atypical development, including social and affective aspects. Appropriate methodologies for the journal include, but are not limited to, functional neuroimaging(fMRI and MEG), electrophysiology (EEG and ERP), NIRS and transcranial magnetic stimulation, as well as other basic neuroscience approaches using cellular and animal models that directly address cognitive brain development, patient studies, case studies, post-mortem studies and pharmacological studies. 

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Editor-in-Chief
Professor Beatriz Luna, Ph.D
University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Cognitive Development, Adolescence, Reward, Neuroimaging
Associate Editors
Dr. Victoria Southgate, PhD
University of Copenhagen Department of Psychology, Copenhagen, Denmark Action processing, Imitation and mimicry, Theory of mind, Motivation and learning, Group cognition
Assoc. Professor Linda Wilbrecht, PhD
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Berkeley, California, United States Prefrontal cortex, striatum, dopamine, adolescence, puberty
Professor Jennifer Pfeifer, PhD
University of Oregon, Department of Psychology, Center for Translational Neuroscience, Eugene, Oregon, United States adolescence, fMRI, longitudinal neuroimaging, puberty, social-emotional processes
Assist. Prof. Katie Mclaughlin, PhD
Harvard University Department of Psychology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesStress, childhood adversity, psychopathology, adolescence, affective neuroscience
Prof. Dr. Eveline Crone, PhD
Leiden University Department of Psychologie, Leiden, Netherlands adolescence, self-regulation, prosocial development, brain development, fMRI
Editorial Board Members
Professor Nick Allen, PhD
University of Oregon Department of Psychology, Eugene, Oregon, United StatesAdolescence, Developmental Psychopathology, Brain Development, Sleep, Prevention Science
Professor Torsten Baldeweg, MD
University College London Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdomneuroimaging, epilepsy, cognitive outcomes, functional mapping
Professor Yair Bar-Haim, PhD
Tel Aviv University Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv, Israel Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, Traumatic Stress
Professor James Blair, PhD
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States Psychopathy, amygdala, ventromedial frontal cortex, emotion
Assoc. Professor Kathrin Cohen Kadosh, PhD
University of Surrey Department of Psychology, Guildford, United Kingdom Anxiety, Brain development, Face processing, Emotion regulation, Microbiome Gut-Brain Axis
Professor Stanislas Dehaene, PhD
INSERM-CEA-University Paris Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Yvette, FranceCognitive Neuroimaging
Dr. Iroise Dumontheil, PhD
Birkbeck University of London Department of Psychological Sciences Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, London, United Kingdom cognitive control, adolescence, executive functions, neuroimaging, fMRI
Dr. Guinevere Eden, PhD
Georgetown University, Department of Pediatrics, Center for the Study of Learning, Washington, District of Columbia, United States Brain-bases of the reading disability developmental dyslexia
Professor Sarah Feldstein Ewing, PhD
Oregon Health and Science University Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Portland, Oregon, United States adolescents; addiction; alcohol; cannabis; neurodevelopment
Professor Nathan Fox, PhD
University of Maryland Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, College Park, Maryland, United States Temperament, Adversity, Brain development, Cognitive Control, Executive Functions
Professor Uta Frith, PhD
University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London, United Kingdomautism, dyslexia, cognitive development, social cognition
Dr. Jay Giedd, MD
University of California San Diego Department of Psychiatry, La Jolla, California, United States Development, Genetics, Brain Imaging, Adolescence
Professor Michelle de Haan, PhD
University College London Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom Event-related potentials; infancy; memory; face processing; preterm
Dr. Antonia Hamilton, PhD
University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London, United KingdomClinical, Educational, and Health Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience; Language & Cognition; Linguistics Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences
Professor Torkel Klingberg, MD, PhD
Karolinska Institutet Department of Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden Working memory, development, plasticity, training, mathematics
Assoc. Professor Cecile D. Ladouceur, PhD
University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Puberty, emotion regulation, affective disorders, event-related potentials, fMRI
Dr. Jennifer Lau, PhD
King's College London Department of Psychiatry, London, United KingdomUnderstanding mood and anxiety problems in children and young people, neural and cognitive mechanisms, atypical emotional and social development
Assoc. Professor Frederique Liegeois, PhD
University College London Institute of Child Health, London, United KingdomDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience:paediatric neuropsychology; speech and language; MRI; paediatric neurological disorders
Professor Monica Luciana, PhD
University of Minnesota Department of Psychology, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States adolescence; executive function; reward processing; neuroimaging; neurochemistry
Dr. Mortimer Mishkin, PhD
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States BEHAVIOR HEARING/SPEECH MEMORY/COGNITIVE PROCESSES NEUROBIOLOGY PERCEPTION/AWARENESS PHYSIOLOGY
Professor Angela T. Morgan, PhD
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Speech and Language, Melbourne, Australia child speech disorder, child language disorder, neurobiology, genetics
Professor Charles A. Nelson, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital, Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research
Dr. Eric Nelson, PhD
Center for Biobehavioral Health - Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States Biobehavioral health, pediatrics, chronic diseases, functional and structural neuroimaging (fMRI), intracranial EEG, eye-tracking, and performance on computer based tasks
Professor Tomáš Paus, M.D., Ph.D.
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada population neuroscience, brain development, adolescence, mental health
Dr. Kevin Pelphrey, PhD
George Washington University, Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, United States Neuroscience; Neurodevelopment and Regeneration; brain basis of autism; neurodevelopmental disorders
Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar, PhD
Penn State Department of Psychology, University Park, Pennsylvania, United StatesTemperament, Anxiety, Attention, Electrophysiology, Eye-Tracking
Dr. Brad Peterson, MD
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United StatesCommunity Health, Neurosciences
Dr. Daniel Pine, MD
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States Psychopathology and brain function
Professor Cathy Price, PhD, BSc
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, London, United Kingdom Expert in the use of structural and functional brain imaging for understanding cognitive processing in the neurologically healthy and damaged brain
Professor Vincent Reid, PhD
University of Waikato Department of Psychology, Hamilton, New Zealand Infancy, EEG, social development, perceptual development, prenatal development
Professor Rick Richardson, PhD
University of New South Wales School of Psychology, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia memory, fear, extinction, early life adversity, rodent models
Dr. Bradley Schlaggar, MD, PhD
Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States functional connectivity, reading, language, Tourette syndrome, executive function
Dr. Beate Sodian, PhD
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Munich, Germany Young children, theory of mind, memory, reasoning skills
Dr. Elizabeth Sowell, PhD
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States Developmental Neuroscience/Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuroimaging/Radiological Sciences; Psychiatric Disorders/Childhood mental health; Children, Youth and Families
Professor Larry Steinberg, PhD
Temple University Department of Psychology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesAdolescence, Risk Taking, Decision Making
Professor Regina Marie Sullivan, PhD
Emotional Brain Institute, Orangeburg, New York, United States Attachment, fear, learning, amygdala, adversity
Professor Susan F. Tapert, PhD
University of California at San Diego Department of Psychiatry, La Jolla, California, United States Neuropsychological assessment, functional neuroimaging, adolescent neurodevelopment, alcohol, cannabis
Dr. Kathleen Thomas, PhD
University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Cognitive development, attention, implicit learning, early experience, pediatric neuroimaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging
Dr. Ken Towbin, MD
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States Depression in teens and pediatric mood disorders
Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, F Med Sci
University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library, London, United Kingdom developmental amnesia; memory; language; cognition; FOXP2
Professor Essi Viding, PhD
University College London Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, London, United Kingdom Antisocial behaviour, Psychopathy, Emotion, Amygdala, Prosocial
Dr. Laurie Wakschlag, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, United States Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Developmental Alterations; Developmental Methods; Developmental Origins of Disease; Developmental Psychopathology; Disruptive/Antisocial BehaviorGene-Environment Interactions; Prenatal Environment and Developmental Outcomes
Professor Kate Watkins, PhD
University of Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, United Kingdomspeech, language, stuttering, stammering, developmental language disorder
Dr. Philip Zelazo, PhD
University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Developmental cognitive neuroscience; executive function; consciousness; rule use; self and social understanding; EEG/ERP; neuroimaging; affective decision making; problem solving; cultural differences in cognitive development; thought and language