PSYB65H3 Chapter 8: PSYB65 - Chapter 8
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Three perspectives on brain development: structural development can be studied and correlated with the emergence of behaviour. Link certain brain structure development to motor development. One cognitive development of the brain that develops last in the frontal lobe is the ability to plan efficiently (as in making travel plans) Tower of hanoi used to test cognitive development: behavioural development can be analyzed and predictions made about what underlying circuitry must be emerging. As a child learns to speak, the part of the brain responsible for speech begins to mature: factors that influence both brain structures and behavioural development such as language or injury, can be studied. We must know the events that shape how that structure functions & produces certain behaviours: ex) sensory experiences, injuries, & the actions of hormones & genes. Neural plate (3 weeks after conception) thickened region of ectodermal layer that gives rise to the neural tube.
