

Publications
Commentary:
Astle, D. E., Johnson, M. H., & Akarca, D. (2025). 'Fix' the Child or Change the Learning Environment?. Developmental science, 28(1), e13567.

Carozza, S., Kletenik, I., Astle, D., Schwamm, L., & Dhand, A. (2025). Whole-brain white matter variation across childhood environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(15), e2409985122.

Monaghan, A., Bethlehem, R. A., Akarca, D., Margulies, D., & Astle, D. E. (2025). Canonical neurodevelopmental trajectories of structural and functional manifolds. eLife, 14. RP103097.

Poli, F., Meyer, M., Mars, R. B., & Hunnius, S. (2025). Exploration in 4‐year‐old children is guided by learning progress and novelty. Child Development, 96(1), 192-202.

Monaghan, A., Akarca, D., & Astle, D. E. (2025). Brain wiring economics, network organisation and population-level genomics. Imaging Neuroscience.

Mousley, A., Akarca, D., & Astle, D. E. (2025). Premature birth changes wiring constraints in neonatal structural brain networks. Nature Communications, 16(1), 490.

Li, Y. L., Poli, F., & Ruggeri, A. (2025). Active control over exploration improves memory in toddlers. Proceedings B, 292(2039), 20242555.

Toffoli, L., Zdorovtsova, N., Epihova, G., Duma, G. M., Del Popolo Cristaldi, F., Pastore, M., ... & Mento, G. Dynamic transient brain states in preschoolers mirror parental report of behavior and emotion regulation
Human Brain Mapping, 45(14), e70011. (2024)

Achterberg, J.*, Akarca, D*., Strouse, D.J., Duncan, J., Astle, D.E. Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks reveal widespread links between structural and functional neuroscience findings.
Nat Mach Intell 5, 1369–1381 (2023).

Carozza S*, Akarca D*, Astle D. E. The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis: modeling equifinality, multifinality, and adaptation to adversity.
Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA120. 2023