Time, Space and Brain …
The Brain is wider than the Sky.
Emily Dickinson
Every time we remember something from the past or imagine something that will happen in the future, we engage in mental time travel. Scientists discovered that, whether we mentally travel back into the past or forward into the future, some of the same brain regions are activated. One of those regions is the hippocampus, a brain structure famous for its role in building long-term memories. Damage to the hippocampus causes memory problems, but it also impairs the ability to imagine future experiences. This brain connection between remembering the past and thinking about the future suggests that memory, planning, and decision-making may be deeply related. The ability to form memories allows us to reminisce about the past. But maybe the ability to form memories also evolved to allow us to think about and plan for the future.
Frontiers for Young Minds
Below lists many labs of brain development using neuroimaging methods, and you can explore more details about the abovementioned stories.
- Lab of Neurocognitive Development (PI: Beatriz Luna) (Github)
- Center for the Developing Brain at CMI (PI: Michael Peter Milham)
- Social Cognitive Affective Neurodevelopment Lab (PI: Moriah Thomason)
- Developing Brains in Context Lab (PI: Kate Mills)
- Adolescent Development and Psychopathology Team (PI: Nick Allen)
- Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Healthy (PI: Torsten Baldeweg)
- Center for Brain and Cognitive Development (Director: Denis Mareschal)
- Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (Brain Architecture)
- NIMH Emotion and Development Branch (PIs: Daniel Pine, Ellen Leibenluft and Argyris Stringaris)
- Lifespan Informatics & Neuroimaging Center (PI: Ted Satterthwaite)
- Developmental Cognition and Neuroimaging Lab (PI: Damien Fair)
- Child Development Lab (PI: Nathan Fox)
- Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (PI: Jay Giedd)
- Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab (PI: Cecile Ladouceur)
- UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (PI: Faraneh Vargha-Khadem)
- Center for Neurobehavioral Development (PI: Monica Luciana)
- Population Neuroscience Laboratory (PI: Tomas Paus)
- Kennedy Krieger Institute (PI: Bradley Schlaggar)
- Institute for the Developing Mind (PI: Elizabeth Sowell)
- Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (PI: Philip Zelazo)
- Lifespan Brain Institute
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition
- keep growing …