“…First, accumulating evidence suggests that functional changes in the ventral visual stream across development play an important role in the development of higher order cognitive function among children. Specifically, activation in ventral visual stream regions (e.g., fusiform gyrus in response to faces; lateral occipital cortex in response to objects) during stimulus encoding and maintenance contributes to improvements in working memory across age (Chai et al, 2010; Rosen et al, 2017; Wendelken et al, 2011). Activation in parahippocampal gyrus and fusiform gyrus during working memory for scenes and faces, respectively, increases with age and is positively associated with both working memory and long-term memory performance (Chai et al, 2010; Rosen et al, 2017, 2018; Wendelken et al, 2011; Fandakova et al, 2019).…”