PSY BEH 110D Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Overproduction, Video Genie, Synaptic Pruning
8 Sep 2016
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Sensitive periods - periods of development during which the brain is especially sensitive to experience or environmental influences. Some of the individuals state that she was able to acquire semantic knowledge, but she could not acquire grammar. If you don"t acquire grammar by 13, it may be possible to be unable to acquire grammar after that. It"s not as though pruning happens at all parts of the brain at the same time, it happens at different parts of the brain at different times. Peak is much earlier in occipital lobe than the frontal lobe. Excessive elimination and reorganization can result in abnormal functioning. Cortical columns devoted to processing lines of various orientations. Kind of visual experience after birth is associated with brain and behavior developments. Visual deprivation in one eye of kittens during sensitive period. Normal vision in one eye cannibalizes brain regions for the patched eye. Cats can see out of eye that wasn"t patched.
