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BOOK

de Haan M, Dumontheil I, & Johnson MH (2023) Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: An Introduction, 5th Edition. Wiley.

Thomas MSC, Mareschal D, & Dumontheil I (Eds) (2020) Educational Neuroscience: Development Across the Life Span (Frontiers of Developmental Science). London: Routledge.

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

In press

Vasilopoulos F & Dumontheil I. Effect of a creative dance-based physical education intervention on primary school children’s creativity and self-regulation: A pilot study.  Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000732 

Vasilopoulos F & Dumontheil I. Predictors of cognitive and motor creativity in childhood. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000693  Summary 

2025

Mayer S*, Dumontheil I*, Wilkinson HR, Porayska-Pomsta K, Farran EK, Tolmie AK, Mareschal D and the UnLocke Team. SEE+ computerized classroom-based training enhances 7- to 10-year-olds’ socio-emotional cognition through observation and reflection. PLOS One, 20(9): e0330934. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330934 * indicates shared first authorship

Podwinski S & Dumontheil I (2025) Benefits of cognitive offloading tools in mathematics education. In S. M. Patahuddin, L. Gaunt, D. Harris & K. Tripet (Eds.), Unlocking minds in mathematics education. Proceedings of the 47th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (pp. 365–372). Canberra: MERGA.

Palmer L, Mareschal D, & Dumontheil I. (2025) Shared neural correlates of interference control and response inhibition in adolescence and young adulthood. Neuropsychologia, 215, 109166.

Palmer LRJ, Sumanapala DK, Mareschal D, Dumontheil I & The UnLocke Team. (2025) Neural associations between inhibitory control and counterintuitive reasoning in science and maths in primary school children. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 37(5), 915–940. 

2024

Perry RC, Johnson MH, Charman T, Pascoe G, Tolmie A, Thomas MSC, Dumontheil I, Jones EJH & The BASIS Team. (2024) Twenty-four-month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics. Developmental Science, e13560.

Thompson R, Stewart G, Vu T, Jephcote C, Lim S, Barratt B, Smith RB, Karim YB, Mussa A, Mudway I, Fisher HL, Dumontheil I, Thomas MSC, Gulliver J, Beevers S, Kelly FJ, Toledano MB. (2024) Air pollution, traffic noise, mental health, and cognitive development: a multi-exposure longitudinal study of London Adolescents in the SCAMP cohort. Environment International, 191, 108963.

2023

Dumontheil I*, Wilkinson HR*, Farran EK, Smid C, Modhvadia R, Mareschal D and the UnLocke team (2023). How do executive functions influence children’s reasoning about counterintuitive concepts in mathematics and science? Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 7, 257-275.

Vasilopoulos F, Jeffrey H, Wu Y, & Dumontheil I (2023). Multi-level meta-analysis of whether fostering creativity during physical activity interventions increases their impact on cognitive and academic outcomes during childhood. Scientific Reports, 13, 8383.

Vasilopoulos F, Jeffrey H, Wu Y, & Dumontheil I. (2023) Multi-level meta-analysis of physical activity interventions during childhood: Effects of physical activity on cognition and academic achievement. Educational Psychology Review, 25, 59.

Goddings AL, Dumontheil I, Viner R, & Blakemore S-J. (2023) Puberty and risky decision-making in male adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101230.

Dumontheil I, Lyons K,  Russell T, & Zelazo P. (2023) A preliminary neuroimaging investigation of the effects of mindfulness training on attention reorienting and amygdala reactivity to emotional faces in adolescent and adult females. Journal of Adolescence, 95(1), 181-189.  Full report available here.

2022

Filippi R, Ceccolini A, Booth E, Shen C, Thomas MSC, Toledano MB, & Dumontheil I. (2022). Modulatory effects of SES and multilinguistic experience on cognitive development: a longitudinal data analysis of multilingual and monolingual adolescents. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(9), 3489-3506.

Shen C, Mireku MO, Di Simplicio M, Dumontheil I, Thomas MSC, Röösli M, Elliott P, & Toledano MB. (2022). Bidirectional associations between sleep problems and behavioural difficulties and health-related quality of life in adolescents: Evidence from the SCAMP longitudinal cohort study. JCPP Advances, 2(3), e12098.

Dumontheil I, Brookman-Byrne A, Tolmie AK, & Mareschal D. (2022). Neural and cognitive underpinnings of counterintuitive science and maths reasoning in adolescence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(7), 1205–1229.

Gauthier A, Porayska-Pomsta Kaska, Mayer S, Dumontheil I, Farran EK, Bell D & Mareschal D (2022) Redesigning learning games for different learning contexts: Applying a serious game design framework to redesign Stop & Think. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 33, 100503.

Gotlieb RJM*, Hickey-Moody A*, Güroğlu B*, Burnard P*, Horn C, Willcox M, Saadatmand M, Linzarini A, Vandenbroucke A, Albanese DL, Bayley A, Blaise M, Blanchet P-A, Campos AL, Cavioni V, Cefai C, Collie RJ, Dumontheil I, Emery HF, Fuligni A, Glaveanu V, Gibson J, Glozah FN, Kuo H-C, Lagi R, Lammes S, Macfarlane AH, Martinsone B, Mclellan R, Pekrun R, Poulou M, Rey J, Rieffe C, Rodriguez V, Rojas N, Rosenbaum G, Sinha P,  Stirling S, Wu J-J, and Zhou J (2022). The social and emotional foundations of learning, in Bugden S and Borst G (eds.) Education and the learning experience in reimagining education: The International Science and Evidence-based Education Assessment [Duraiappah AK, van Atteveldt NM et al. (eds.)]. New Delhi: UNESCO MGIEP.  * Indicates co-first authorship, as authors have contributed equally.

de Mooij SMM, Dumontheil I, Kirkham NZ, Raijmakers MEJ, & van der Maas HLJ (2022) Post-Error Slowing: Large scale study in an online learning environment for practicing mathematics and language. Developmental Science, 25(2), e13174.

Gauthier A, Porayska-Pomsta K, Dumontheil I, Mayer S, & Mareschal D (2022) Manipulating interface design features affects children's stop-and-think behaviours in a counterintuitive-problem game. Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 29(2), 1-22. 

2021

Donati G, Meaburn EM, & Dumontheil I. (2021) Internalising and externalising in early adolescence predict later executive function, not the other way around: a cross-lagged panel analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 35(5), 986-998.

Shen  C, Dumontheil I, Thomas MSC, Röösli M, Elliott P, Toledano MB. (2021) Digital technology use and body mass index: Evidence from cross-sectional analysis of an adolescent cohort study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(7), e26485.

Morris S, Dumontheil I, & Farran EK. (2021) Responses to Navon tasks differ across development and between tasks with differing attentional demands. Vision Research, 185, 17-28.

Dumontheil I. (2021). La régulation du comportement et des émotions pendant l’adolescence. Neuroéducation, 7(1). doi : https://doi.org/10.24046/neuroed.20210701.1 

Donati G, Dumontheil I, Pain O, Asbury K, Meaburn EL. (2021) Evidence for specificity of polygenic contributions to attainment in English, maths and science during adolescence. Scientific Reports, 11, 3851.

de Mooij SMM, Raijmakers MEJ, Dumontheil I, Kirkham NZ, & van der Maas HLJ. (2021) Error detection through mouse movement in an online adaptive learning environment. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 37, 242-252.

2020

Symeonidou I, Dumontheil I, Ferguson HJ, & Breheny R. (2020) Adolescents are delayed at inferring complex social intentions in others, but not basic (false) beliefs: An eye movement investigation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(10), 1640-1659.

Magis-Weinberg L, Custers R, & Dumontheil I. (2020) Sustained and transient processes in event-based prospective memory in adolescence and adulthood. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 1924-1945.

Wilkinson HR, Smid C, Morris S, Farran EK,  Dumontheil I, Mayer S, Tolmie A, Bell D, Porayska-Pomsta K, Holmes W, Mareschal D, Thomas MSC and the UnLocke Team** .(2020). Domain-specific inhibitory control training to improve children’s learning of counterintuitive concepts in mathematics and science. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 4, 296–314. **The UnLocke team consists of the authors of this paper as well as Annie Brookman-Byrne, Roshni Modhvadia, and Dilini Sumanapala.

Edey R, Yon D, Dumontheil I, & Press C. (2020) Association between action kinematics and emotion perception across adolescence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(7), 657-666.

van Atteveldt N, Peters S, De Smedt B, & Dumontheil I. (2020). Towards greater collaboration in educational neuroscience: perspectives from the 2018 Earli‐SIG22 conference. Mind, Brain, and Education, 14(2), 124–129. 

Jenkins RH, Shen C, Dumontheil I, Thomas M, Elliot P, Röösli M, & Toledano M. (2020) Social networking site use in young adolescents: association with health-related quality of life and behavioural difficulties. Computers in Human Behavior, 109, 106320.

Dumontheil I, Kilford EJ, & Blakemore S-J. (2020) Development of dopaminergic genetic associations with visuospatial, verbal and social working memory. Developmental Science, 23, e12889.

de Mooij SMM, Kirkham NZ, Raijmakers M, van der Maas HLJ, & Dumontheil I. (2020) Should online maths learning environments be tailored to individuals’ cognitive profiles? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 191, 104730.

2019

Magis-Weinberg L, Custers R, & Dumontheil I. (2019) Rewards enhance proactive and reactive control in adolescence and adulthood. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(11), 1219-1232.

Morris S, Farran E K, & Dumontheil I. (2019). Field independence associates with mathematics and science performance in 5‐ to 10‐year‐olds after accounting for domain‐general factors. Mind, Brain, and Education, 13(4), 268–278. 

Donati G, Dumontheil I, & Meaburn EL. (2019) Genome-wide association study of latent cognitive measures in adolescence: genetic overlap with intelligence and education. Mind, Brain and Education, 13:224-233. .

Brookman-Byrne A, Mareschal D, Tolmie AK, & Dumontheil I. (2019) The unique contributions of verbal analogical reasoning and non-verbal matrix reasoning to science and maths problem-solving in adolescence. Mind, Brain, and Education, 13:211-223. 

Toledano M, Mutz J, Röösli M, Thomas M, Dumontheil I, & Elliott P. (2019) Cohort Profile: The Study of Cognition, Adolescents and Mobile Phones (SCAMP). International Journal of Epidemiology, 48:25-26. 

Mireku MO, Barker MM, Mutz J, Shen C, Dumontheil I, Thomas MSC, Röösli M, Elliott P, & Toledano MB. ("019) Processed data on the night-time screen-based media device use and adolescents’ sleep and health-related quality of life. Data Brief, 23:103761. 

Mireku MO, Barker MM, Mutz J, Dumontheil I, Thomas MSC, Röösli M, Elliott P, & Toledano MB. (2019). Night-time screen-based media device use and adolescents’ sleep and health-related quality of life. Environment International, 124:66-78. 

Donati G, Meaburn EL, & Dumontheil I. The specificity of associations between cognition and attainment in English, maths and science during adolescence. Learning and Individual Differences (2019), 69:84-93. 

2018

Tamnes CK, Overbye K, Ferschamnn L, Fjell AM, Walhovd KB, Blakemore S-J, Dumontheil I. Social perspective taking is associated with self-reported prosocial behavior and regional cortical thickness across adolescence. Developmental Psychology (2018), 54: 1745–1757.

Brookman-Byrne A, Mareschal D, Tolmie AK, Dumontheil I. Inhibitory control and counterintuitive science and maths reasoning in adolescence. PLOS ONE (2018), 13(6):e0198973.

Mireku MO, Mueller W, Fleming C, Chang I, Dumontheil I, Thomas MSC, Eeftens M, Elliott P, Röösli M, & Toledano MB. Total recall in the SCAMP cohort: Validation of self-reported mobile phone use in the smartphone era. Environmental Research (2018), 161:1-8.

2017

Magis-Weinberg L, Blakemore S-J, Dumontheil I. Social and nonsocial relational reasoning in adolescence and adulthood. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2017), 29(10):1739-1754.

Edey R, Yon D, Cook J, Dumontheil I, Press C. Our own action kinematics predict the perceived affective state of others. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (2017), 43(7):1263-1268.

2016

Humphrey G, Dumontheil I. Development of risk-taking, perspective-taking, and inhibitory control during adolescence. Developmental Neuropsychology (2016), 41:59-76.

Symeonidou I, Dumontheil I, Chow W-Y, Breheny R. Development of online use of theory of mind in adolescence: an eye-tracking study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2016), 149:81-97.

Dumontheil I*, Wolf L*, Blakemore S-J. Audience effects on the neural correlates of relational reasoning in adolescence. Neuropsychologia (2016), 87:85-95. (* indicates shared first authorship)

Dumontheil I. Adolescent brain development. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (2016), 10:39-44.

2015

Mills KL, Dumontheil I, Speekenbrink M, Blakemore S-J. Multitasking during social interactions in adolescence and early adulthood. Royal Society Open Science (2015), 2:150117.

Dumontheil I. Development of the social brain during adolescence. Psicología Educativa (2015), 21:117-124.

Jensen SKG, Dickie EW, Schwartz DH, Evans CJ, Dumontheil I, Paus T, Barker ED. Effect of early adversity and childhood internalizing symptoms on brain structure in male youths. JAMA Paediatrics (2015), 938-946.

Wolf L , Bazargani N, Kilford E, Dumontheil I, Blakemore S-J. The audience effect in adolescence depends on who’s looking over your shoulder. Journal of Adolescence (2015), 43:5-14. 

Kilford E*, Dumontheil I*, Wood NW, Blakemore S-J, Influence of COMT genotype and affective distractors on the processing of self-generated thought. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2015), 10:777-782. (* indicates shared first authorship)

2014

Dumontheil I, Development of abstract thinking during childhood and adolescence: The role of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2014), 10:57-76.

Dumontheil I*, Jensen SKG*, Wood NW, Meyer ML, Lieberman MD, Blakemore S-J. Preliminary investigation of the influence of dopamine regulating genes on social working memory. Social Neuroscience (2014), 9(5):437-51. (* indicates shared first authorship)

Jensen SKG, Dumontheil I, Barker ED. Developmental inter-relations between early maternal depression, contextual risks, and interpersonal stress, and their effect on later child cognitive functioning. Depression and Anxiety (2014), 31(7):599-607.

Bazargani N, Hillebrandt HF, Christoff K, Dumontheil I. Developmental changes in effective connectivity associated with relational reasoning. Human Brain Mapping (2014), 35(7):3262-3276.

Fett AKJ, Shergill SS, Gromann PM, Dumontheil I, Blakemore S-J, Yakub F, Krabbendam L. Trust and social reciprocity in adolescence – A matter of perspective taking. Journal of Adolescence (2014), 37(2):175-184.

2013

Hillebrandt HF, Dumontheil I, Blakemore S-J, Roiser JP. Dynamic Causal Modelling of effective connectivity during perspective taking in a communicative task. Neuroimage (2013), 76(1):116-124.

Weil GL*, Fleming SM*, Dumontheil I*, Kilford EJ, Weil RS, Rees G, Dolan RJ. The development of metacognitive ability during adolescence. Consciousness and Cognition (2013), 22(1):264-271.  (* indicates shared first authorship)

2012

Duncan J, Schramm M, Thompson R, Dumontheil I. Task rules, working memory and fluid intelligence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2012), 19(5):864-870. 

Dumontheil I*, Hillebrandt H*, Apperly IA, Blakemore S-J. Developmental differences in the control of action selection by social information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2012), 24(10):2080-2095. (* indicates shared first authorship)

Ziermans T, Dumontheil I, Roggeman C, Peyrard-Janvid M, Matsson H, Kere J, Klingberg T. Working memory brain activity and capacity link MAOA polymorphism to aggressive behavior during development. Translational Psychiatry (2012), 2, e85. 

Dumontheil I, Blakemore S-J. Social cognition and abstract thought in adolescence: The role of structural and functional development in rostral prefrontal cortex. British Journal of Educational Psychology Monograph Series II, Number 8 - Educational Neuroscience (2012), 99-113.

Dumontheil I, Klingberg T. Brain activity during a visuospatial working memory task predicts arithmetical performance two years later. Cerebral Cortex (2012), 22(5):1078-1085. 

2011

Dumontheil I, Roggeman C, Ziermans T, Peyrard-Janvid M, Matsson H, Kere J, Klingberg T. Influence of the COMT genotype on working memory and brain activity changes during development. Biological Psychiatry (2011), 70(3):222-229 (supplementary material).

Sebastian CL, Tan GC, Roiser JP, Viding E, Dumontheil I, Blakemore SJ. Developmental influences on the neural bases of responses to social rejection: Implications of social neuroscience for education. Neuroimage (2011), 57(3):686-694.

Dumontheil I, Thompson R, Duncan J. Assembly and use of new task rules in the frontoparietal cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2011), 23(1):168-182 (supplementary material).

2010

Dumontheil I, Houlton R, Christoff K, Blakemore SJ. Development of relational reasoning during adolescence. Developmental Science (2010), 13(6):F15-24 (supplementary material).

Dumontheil I, Hassan B, Gilbert SJ, Blakemore SJ. Development of the selection and manipulation of self-generated thoughts in adolescence, Journal of Neuroscience (2010), 30(22):7664-7671.

Dumontheil I, Küster O, Apperly IA, Blakemore SJ. Taking perspective into account in a communicative task, NeuroImage (2010), 52(4):1574-1583 (supplementary material).

Dumontheil I, Apperly I, Blakemore SJ. Online usage of theory of mind continues to develop in late adolescence, Developmental Science (2010), 13(2):331-338.

Dumontheil I, Gilbert SJ, Burgess PW, Otten LJ. Neural correlates of task and source switching: similar or different? Biological Psychology (2010), 83(3):239-249.

Dumontheil I, Burgess PW, Gilbert SJ, Frith CD. Recruitment of lateral rostral prefrontal cortex in spontaneous and task-related thoughts, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2010) 63(9):1740-1756.

2008

Dumontheil I, Burgess PW, Blakemore SJ. Development of rostral prefrontal cortex and cognitive and behavioural disorders. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (2008) 50(3):168-181.

2007

Gilbert SJ, Williamson IDM, Dumontheil I, Simons JS, Frith CD & Burgess PW. Distinct regions of medial rostral prefrontal cortex supporting social and nonsocial functions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2007) 2(3):206-216.

Burgess PW, Gilbert SJ, Dumontheil I. A gateway between mental life and the external world: Role of the rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10). Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology (2007) 23(1):8-26.

Burgess PW, Dumontheil I, Gilbert SJ. The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function. Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2007) 11(7):290-8.

Gilbert SJ, Dumontheil I, Simons JS, Frith CD, Burgess PW. Comment on “Wandering minds: thedefault network and stimulus-independent thought”. Science (2007) 317(5834):43.

Burgess PW, Gilbert SJ, Dumontheil I. Function and localization within rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2007) 362(1481):887-99.

2006

Dumontheil I, Panagiotaki P & Berthoz A. Dual adaptation to sensory conflicts during whole-body rotations. Brain Research (2006) 1072-1, 119:132.

Burgess PW, Alderman N, Forbes C, Costello A, Coates LM-A, Dawson DR, Anderson ND, Gilbert SJ, Dumontheil I & Channon S. The case for the development and use of “ecologically valid”measures of executive function in experimental and clinical neuropsychology. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (2006) 12, 1-16.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Dumontheil I (2021) The development of white and gray matter: Adolescence as a period of transition. In: Della Sala, S (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, 3, 400–409. Elsevier.

Brookman-Byrne A & Dumontheil I (2021). Brain and cognitive development during adolescence: Implications for science and mathematics education. In The ‘BrainCanDo’ Handbook of Teaching and Learning (eds. Harrington, Beale, Fancourt & Lutz). Routledge. 

Dumontheil I & Mareschal D (2020) An introduction to brain and cognitive development. In Educational Neuroscience: Development Across the Life Span (Frontiers of Developmental Science) (eds Thomas, Mareschal & Dumontheil).  Routledge.

Thomas MSC, Dumontheil I & Mareschal D (2020) Key challenges in advancing educational neuroscience. In Educational Neuroscience: Development Across the Life Span (Frontiers of Developmental Science) (eds Thomas, Mareschal & Dumontheil).  Routledge.

Kemp-Gee E & Dumontheil I (2017). How can we improve student behaviour? Socio-emotional changes during adolescence: a challenge for schools. In World Class: Tackling the Ten Biggest Challenges Facing Schools Today (eds James & Warwick). Routledge.

Burgess PW, Dumontheil I, Gilbert SJ, Okuda J, Schölvinck ML, Simons JS (2007). On the role of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) in prospective memory. In Prospective memory: Cognitive, neuroscience, developmental, and applied perspectives (eds Kliegel, McDaniel & Einstein) Erlbaum.

Burgess PW, Simons JS, Dumontheil I & Gilbert SJ. (2005). The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area10) function. In Measuring the Mind: Speed, control and age (eds. Duncan, McLeod & Phillips). Oxford University Press.