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Brain Development and the Role of Experience in the Early Years.

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Research over the past several decades has provided insight into the processes that govern early brain development and how those processes contribute to behavior. In the following article, we provide an overview of early brain development beginning with a summary of the prenatal period. We then turn to postnatal development and examine how brain functions are built and how experience mediates this process. Specifically, we discuss findings from research on speech and on face processing. The results of this research highlight how the first few years of life are a particularly important period of development of the brain.

Source: PubMed

Authors: Adrienne L Tierney, Charles A Nelson

Institution: Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Child and Animal Learning Development

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Mental Health

Award: Neural, Physiological, Behavioral, and Environmental Risk Markers of Anxiety from Infancy to Adolescence

OpenAlex ID: W151096051

FWCI: 2.928

Cites: 21

Cited by: 380

Related to: 10