The adult human brain is a patchwork of regions, some implementing very specific cognitive functions (domain-specific), and some more broadly engaged across different tasks (domain-general). But how does this functional organization arise in development, change with experience, and predict complex human behavior? How much does the “neural stuff” that we are born with shape who we are today? We study how neuroanatomy determines the functional organization of the human brain and how the existing architecture changes with typical or adverse experience. We use longitudinal neuroimaging and computational modeling of multimodal imaging and behavioral data for most of our studies.
Neonatal longitudinal investigation of brain and behavior