PSYC24H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory, Oneword
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Psyc24 w4l4: language: when qian was five years old, she participated in the famous marshmallow task. She did very well, and did not touch the marshmallow for the entire five minutes in which she was left alone. Shows the development of gray matter in at the neural level from age. 5 to 20 - a lot less density in these areas at age five than you do at 20. Physiological changes drive behavioral changes: major structural advancement in the prefrontal cortex and throughout the brain, major structural. Gray matter is effectively a shortcut way of talking about increased neural density advancement in the front of the brain. But it"s crucial to note that the connections with the prefrontal cortex are our brain wide. the neural system is interconnected. Those connections get pruned back as they fall out of use and the ones that are used become stronger: pruning back allows the processing of information to become more efficient.
