ArticleDevelopmental neuroscience2026
On the Same Wavelength: The Relationship between Neural Synchrony and Cognitive Ability during Movie Watching in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence.
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- The developmental trajectory of the social brain: A movie-based exploration from childhood to adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
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introductionCognitive development in late childhood and adolescence occurs alongside increasingly complex environments. The current study examined how cognitive abilities relate to neural processing of naturalistic experiences.
methodsWe analyzed fMRI data from 309 children and adolescents (ages 7-15; majority White) in the Healthy Brain Biobank. Participants watched a 10-min clip of Despicable Me during scanning and completed the WISC. Intersubject correlation (ISC) was used to measure brain synchrony during viewing.
resultsAdolescents [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>-<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref>] with higher cognitive scores showed greater ISC in default mode and frontoparietal networks. In contrast, younger children [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref>-<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref>] with high scores showed increased between-subject synchrony only in somatosensory regions.
conclusionsThese findings suggest age- and cognition-related differences in how children and adolescents process complex, real-world stimuli.
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