Increased functional selectivity over development in rostrolateral prefrontal cortex - This study reveals a pattern of increasing functional specialization within rostrolateral prefrontal cortex (RLPFC) and the inferior parietal lobe (IPL) for second-order relational processing, across 85 children aged 7-18. In addition, examination of cortical thickness reveals that local cortical thinning does not drive this pattern of increasing specialization; however, cortical thinning in IPL does appear to have some affect on functional specialization of RLPFC. Published November 23, 2011 by the Bunge lab in Neuroscience

Dream sleep takes sting out of painful memories - Highlighting the latest article published November 23, 2011 by the Walker lab in Current Biology.

Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind - Highlighting the latest from the Gallant Lab, published September 22, 2011 in Current Biology.

Rostrolateral prefrontal cortex: Domain-general or domain-sensitive? - Examining fMRI data from young adults as they performed separate semantic and visuospatial relational matching tasks, we were able to show that rostrolateral prefrontal cortex (RLPFC) is engaged for second-order processing in both the semantic and visuospatial domains. Although there was considerable overlap in semantic and visuospatial activations, the peaks associated with visuospatial processing, within RLPFC, were consistently superior to those associated with semantic processing. Published on August 10, 2011 by the Bunge lab in Human Brain Mapping

Advances makes MRI scans more than seven times faster - Discusses imaging techniques developed by David Feinberg and colleagues. Published Decemeber 20, 2010 in PLoS ONE