Developmental cognitive neuroscience is an interdisciplinary scientific field devoted to understanding psychological processes and their neurological bases in the developing organism.
[10][11][12][13] Thus, developmental cognitive neuroscience may shed light on nature versus nurture debates as well as constructivism and neuroconstructivism theories.
To bridge the communication gaps, researchers were invited from different fields who were either using the same experimental paradigms to study the same behaviors or were investigating related scientific questions in complementary ways—though they were unaware of one another’s work.
It also fundamentally altered the scientific understanding of prefrontal cortex early in development; clearly it was not silent as accepted wisdom had held.
When doing in vivo analysis of the brain, we can use neuroimaging techniques to gain insights in order to further study developmental cognitive processes.
It also allows researchers to explore questions that are typically referred to as “nature” versus “nurture.” By using neuroimaging techniques, we can understand the biological process that underlie cognition and the relationship that it has with other external factors, like environmental exposures, learning, and collective life experiences.
Scientists then proceeded to expand the use of ERP to study cognitive functioning earlier on in life to gain insights into the brain’s involvement in different processes such as discrimination, categorization, and memory.
A key advantage of this imaging technique is that it provides excellent spatial localization, as well as high temporal resolution of neural events.
Although, there are anatomical and physiological developments that can impact the observed results and if unfamiliar with these changes, a researcher could wrongly make an interpretation.