The Most Amazing Machine: Brain Specialization: What It Involves and Does Not Involve
The brain has developed clever strategies to invest more in the development of specific abilities on one side than the other. Because the brain engages in this kind of specialization some people ask where the elements of our personalities are ...
The Growing Years: Brain Development in Infancy
From infancy on, the brain and mind, the neural hardware and cognitive software of an infant develop together. At birth the limbic areas are quite immature, and the cortex is almost entirely underdeveloped. The neurons are there, but the connections...
The Growing Years: Early Motor Development
As the infant's muscles and nervous systems mature, more complex skills emerge...first sitting, then standing, and walking. The brain uses the sensory feedback it receives to guide the development of movement. The age at which a baby acquires variou...
The Learning Machine: Cerebral Cortex, a Learning Machine, The
The cerebral cortex, supported by subcortical machinery, is a learning machine, controlling, modulating and regulating those permanent changes in behavior brought on by experience. Inside the brain, information is processed by neurons forming neural...
Thinking and Language: Child's Remarkable Ability to Acquire Language, A
Young children gain access to language in well-documented stages, from cooing and babbling to an explosion of words at about 18 months. B. F. Skinner thought that language acquisition relied on operant conditioning and reinforcement, whereas Noam Ch...