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The study collects data on the behavior and brain development of over 11,500 children beginning at age 9-10 and continuing through young adulthood. [2] The study collected data from youth in seven primary domains: physical health, mental health, brain imaging, biospecimens, neurocognition, substance use, and culture and environment.
The temporal gap in the development of the socioemotional and cognitive control systems creates a period of heightened vulnerability to risk-taking during mid-adolescence. In the dual systems model, "reward sensitivity" and " cognitive control " refer to neurobiological constructs that are measured in studies of brain structure and function.
Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of the developed adult brain and cognitive psychology.
Adolescence is a time of rapid cognitive development. [60] Piaget describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual's thoughts start taking more of an abstract form and the egocentric thoughts decrease, allowing the individual to think and reason in a wider perspective. [ 61 ]
Moreover, Piaget claimed that cognitive development is at the centre of the human organism, and language is contingent on knowledge and understanding acquired through cognitive development. [6] Piaget's earlier work received the greatest attention. Child-centred classrooms and "open education" are direct applications of Piaget's views. [7]
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Betty Jo "BJ" Casey [1] is an American cognitive neuroscientist and expert on adolescent brain development and self control. [2] She is the Christina L. Williams Professor of Neuroscience at Barnard College of Columbia University where she directs the Fundamentals of the Adolescent Brain (FAB) Lab [3] and is an Affiliated Professor of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, Yale University.
Adriana Galván is an American psychologist and expert on adolescent brain development. [1] She is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she directs the Developmental Neuroscience laboratory. [2]