PSYC 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Gust Co. Ltd., Saccade, Optic Radiation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 410
• Professor: Jelena Ristic

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Implications for academic interest, clinical, educational, and social. Highly specialized adult brain = specific inter- and intraregional. How does the physical growth of the brain (size, connections) Much of neuroscience concerns itself with dissociating and. Functional specialization of regions arise through intrinsic genetic and molecular mechanisms, experience is just fine tuning": infants born with innate modules and core knowledge" relevant to the physical and social world. Some aspects of human functional brain development involve a prolonged process of specialization shaped by postnatal experience: changes in behavior are due to general mechanisms of learning and plasticity. The more delayed the general time course of development, the (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) larger the relative volume of the later developing structures (e. g. cerebral cortex, specifically frontal lobe) (cid:1) brain"s circuitry (cid:1) humans. Another benefit: prolongs influence of environment in shaping the. Several ways to study postnatal neuroanatomical development in.