Welcome to the Lab of Neurocognitive Development of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Our research focuses upon the changes in brain function that subserve the acquisition of higher-order cognition from late childhood through adolescence in normal development and in neuropsychiatric disturbances, including autism. Most of our research is aimed at delineating brain circuitry underlying higher-order cognition including networks for voluntary response suppression, spatial working memory, prototype formation, and planning of anticipated motor responses.