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The Role of a Distributed Cortical Network in Neurodevelopment Literature focusing on typical and atypical neurodevelopment has been reporting more and more frequently how human cognition relies on a distributed cortical network (e.g., Jasinska et al., 2012). This network includes the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, inferior frontal gyrus, the insula, and parietal regions (Ishai, 2008; Petersen and Sporns, 2015). The cortico-centric model has been the most used approach to explain the human cognitive functioning from pathology to normal development (Antonietti et al., 2005; Fabio et al., 2005, 2018a, 2019e; Koziol and Budding, 2009; Fabio and Towey, 2018; Caprì et al., 2019). However, traditional cortico-centric tend not to show a coherent and unite neuroanatomic framework that considers the overlapping levels of cognitive-control functions. This is caused by the fact that they highlight the contributions of the prefrontal cortex in neurodevelopment, while they do not consider the role of subcortical brain structures. In young children, the cortex is immature and, consequently, subcortical processes are dominant (Koziol and Budding, 2009).