Dear All,
We would like to inform about a change regarding the following talk by Ilona Kovács (
Eötvös Loránd University), organized as part of the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series.
Previously the talk was organized as it could be attended personally but after some
consideration we decided to organize it as an online talk. Date and time will remain the
same. Hope this won't inconvenience anybody.
Time and date: 18:00 (CET), Tuesday, November 8th 2022
Place: via Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Ilona Kovács ( Eötvös Loránd University),
Title: Biological and experience-based trajectories in adolescent brain and cognitive
development
Abstract: Adolescent development is not only shaped by the mere passing of time and
accumulating experience, but it also depends on pubertal timing and the cascade of
maturational processes orchestrated by gonadal hormones. Although individual variability
in puberty onset confounds adolescent studies, it has not been efficiently controlled for.
Here we introduce ultrasonic bone age assessment to estimate biological maturity and
disentangle the independent effects of chronological and biological age on adolescent
cognitive abilities, emotional development, and brain maturation. Comparing cognitive
performance of participants with different skeletal maturity we uncover the impact of
biological age on both IQ and specific abilities. With respect to emotional development,
we find narrow windows of highest vulnerability determined by biological age. In terms of
neural development, we focus on the relevance of neural states unrelated to sensory
stimulation, such as cortical activity during sleep and resting states, and we uncover a
novel anterior-to-posterior pattern of human brain maturation. Based on our findings, bone
age is a promising biomarker of adolescent maturity.
Related papers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-09329-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11098-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05620-1
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0882596322002159
Zoom link:https://ppk-elte-hu.zoom.us/j/99001664208?pwd=WUZkTzR5eGdiU1lhSWVDcENHWnMvdz09
Meeting ID: 990 0166 4208
Passcode: 118521
If you have questions about the event, please contact us via email
(szabo.eszter.dora(a)ppk.elte.hu).
We look forward to seeing you at the event,
Eszter Dóra Szabó
organizer
ELTE Department of Cognitive Psychology