POL SCI 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Neurulation, Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe
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Quick way to assess children"s knowledge or reports on behaviour. Pools large body of research to sort out conflicting findings. Children may not react as they would in real life. Variables may not have been defined identically across studies, which makes it difficult to compare studies with each other: anatomical studies, grey matter and white matter densities can be computed for different regions and be compared across subjects/time. Function mri: you can relate brain activity to brain structures, activation patterns within structures, activation patterns in the brain during different activities: speech, finger tap and listening picture in the slide. Mri is not allowed/not very useful to use for children under 8 years old. Eeg/erp recordings: direct and continuous measures of electrical brain activity, easier to use this technique in young children compared to mri. Can isolate cause-and-effect relationship; behaviours are observed in natural settings. Takes advantage of natural separation of children into groups.
