On learning profiles and brain networks, with Dr Duncan Astle

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English - April 30, 2020 13:49 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MB
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Duncan is a developmental psychologist at the University of Cambridge whose research explores how cognitive development relates to neural structures, networks, and processes. During this podcast he chats to Sue Fletcher-Watson about a piece of research that shows that for any specific learning profile there are many underlying possible brain networks.

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The paper discussed in this episode is:
Bathelt, J., Holmes, J., Astle, D. E., Gathercole, S., Astle, D., Manly, T., & Kievit, R. (2018). Data-Driven Subtyping of Executive Function–Related Behavioral Problems in Children. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 57(4), 252-262.