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ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2026

Experience-dependent cortical plasticity in response to formal schooling: Effects on networks for reading and mathematics.

Floor Vandecruys, Maaike Vandermosten, Bert De Smedt

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Article in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Floor VandecruysParenting and Special Education Research Unit, KU Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: floor.vandecruys@kuleuven.be.
Maaike VandermostenExperimental ORL, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Bert De SmedtParenting and Special Education Research Unit, KU Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Between ages 5-10, children undergo substantial structural brain development. These changes coincide with the transition from preschool to primary school. The extent to which this school transition drives the observed structural brain changes remains unclear. We used a school cut-off design to disentangle the effects of formal schooling and age-related maturation on children's brain development by comparing children who attended formal education in primary school and children of similar age but who remained in preschool. Sixty-four children (36 schooling, Med

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Cerebral CortexChild DevelopmentNeuronal PlasticityReadingChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMathematicsSchoolsCortical structureEarly childhoodMathematicsMRINeuroplasticityReadingSchool cut-off design

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PMID42235253
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