The infancy of the human brain
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CBMM-Memo-053.pdf
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Author(s)
Dehaene-Lambertz, G.
Spelke, Elizabeth S.
Date Issued
October 7, 2015
Publisher
Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), Neuron
Citation
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.026
Series/Report no.
CBMM Memo Series;053
Abstract
The human infant brain is the only known machine able to master a natural language and develop explicit, symbolic, and communicable systems of knowledge that deliver rich representations of the external world. With the emergence of non-invasive brain imaging, we now have access to the unique neural machinery underlying these early accomplishments. After describing early cognitive capacities in the domains of language and number, we review recent findings that underline the strong continuity between human infants’ and adults’ neural architecture, with notably early hemispheric asymmetries and involvement of frontal areas. Studies of the strengths and limitations of early learning, and of brain dynamics in relation to regional maturational stages, promise to yield a better understanding of the sources of human cognitive achievements.
Subjects
human brain
Development of Intelligence
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