Biography

A brief biography (150 words or less). Eveline Crone is a full professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD cum laude at the University of Amsterdam and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California in Davis. Since 2005, she is head of the Brain & Development Laboratory at Leiden University. She obtained several large research grants from the Dutch NWO and the European Research Council (including a 1.500 k ERC Grant). Her research has been awarded many times, including a top achievement award from the National network for women in science, and the Award for Science and Communication handed out by the Dutch minister of Education. In 2011, she received the Early Career Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Boston. Since 2013 she is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2-148 - Brain Regions Supporting Cognitive and Social-Affective Development in Adolescence

Session Type: Invited Address

Integrative Statement

Adolescent development comes with massive changes in cognitive, emotional and social reasoning. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) we study how changes in brain function are related to changes in cognition and emotion over the course of child and adolescent development. In this talk, I will present results from longitudinal studies showing that adolescent brain development is associated with: (1) increased flexibility of cognitive control, combined with (2) an imbalance between limbic and prefrontal cortex during affective and social reasoning tasks. I will show that adolescent brain development provides a window of opportunity which is important for adaptive exploration, eventually leading to mature goals and social competence.

Sub Unit

• SRCD Biennial Meeting

Chair

• Nathan A Fox, Univ of Maryland

Speaker

• Eveline Crone, Leiden University