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Developmental psychologists have long debated how growth and experience affect the development of the human brain and behavior. In a Perspective, Casey explains new work (Schlaggar et al.) that seeks to resolve the debate by using functional magnetic resonance imaging to distinguish differences in brain activity between adults and children performing single word processing tasks.
The author is at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA. E-mail: bjc2002{at}med.cornell.edu
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Bradley L. Schlaggar, Timothy T. Brown, Heather M. Lugar, Kristina M. Visscher, Francis M. Miezin, and Steven E. Petersen (24 May 2002) Science296 (5572), 1476.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1069464] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supplemental Data »
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