Brain and cognitive development is a burgeoning area of scientific inquiry, with tremendous potential to better the lives of children. Large scale longitudinal neuroimaging studies offer opportunities for significant scientific advances in our understanding of developing brain structure and function. The proposed manuscript will focus on the scientific potential of the HEALthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) Study, highlighting what questions these data can and what they cannot answer about child development. Specifically, we caution against the misuse of these data for advancing de-contextualized and scientifically questionable narratives about the development of children from marginalized communities. We will focus on building and organizing a framework for interpreting HBCD data through the lens of sampling, cultural context, measurement, and developmental science theory. Our goal is to thoughtfully offer the scientific community opportunities to use the large scale and collaborative nature of HBCD to collectively revise practices in developmental science that to-date have not carefully considered their own role in perpetuating narratives that support systemic injustice.

大脑和认知发展是一个新兴的科学探究领域，具有改善儿童生活的巨大潜力。大规模的纵向神经影像学研究为我们对发展大脑结构和功能的理解提供了重大科学进展的机会。拟议的手稿将关注健康大脑和认知发展 (HBCD) 研究的科学潜力，强调这些数据可以回答哪些问题，以及他们不能回答关于儿童发展的哪些问题。具体来说，我们告诫不要滥用这些数据来推进关于边缘化社区儿童发展的脱离语境和科学质疑的叙述。我们将专注于建立和组织一个框架，通过抽样、文化背景、测量、和发展科学理论。我们的目标是深思熟虑地为科学界提供机会，以利用 HBCD 的大规模和协作性质来集体修改发展科学中的实践，这些实践迄今为止还没有仔细考虑过他们自己在维持支持系统性不公正的叙述中的作用。