Arsalidou Marie, Pascual-Leone Juan
Department of Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
NPJ Sci Learn. 2016 Dec 14;1:16016. doi: 10.1038/npjscilearn.2016.16. eCollection 2016.
Neuroscience techniques provide an open window previously unavailable to the origin of thoughts and actions in children. Developmental cognitive neuroscience is booming, and knowledge from human brain mapping is finding its way into education and pediatric practice. Promises of application in developmental cognitive neuroscience rests however on better theory-guided data interpretation. Massive amounts of neuroimaging data from children are being processed, yet published studies often do not frame their work within developmental models-in detriment, we believe, to progress in this field. Here we describe some core challenges in interpreting the data from developmental cognitive neuroscience, and advocate the use of constructivist developmental theories of human cognition with a neuroscience interpretation.
神经科学技术为探究儿童思想和行为的起源打开了一扇前所未有的窗口。发展认知神经科学正在蓬勃发展，来自人类脑图谱的知识正逐渐应用于教育和儿科实践。然而，发展认知神经科学的应用前景取决于更好的理论指导下的数据解释。目前正在处理大量来自儿童的神经影像数据，但已发表的研究往往没有将其工作置于发展模型之中——我们认为，这不利于该领域的进展。在此，我们描述了在解释发展认知神经科学数据时面临的一些核心挑战，并提倡运用具有神经科学解释的建构主义人类认知发展理论。
