Brain Development and the Role of Experience in the Early Years
By Adrienne L. Tierney, Charles A. Nelson. 2009
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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.
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- The Gut-Brain Axis: How Microbiota and Host Inflammasome Influence Brain Physiology and Pathology (2020, background): “Within the first three months of life in humans, its size increases more than 50% from the time of birth, reaching 90% of the size of the adult organ within the first five years of life (72).”
- Considerations for conducting developmental neuroimaging research on mental health topics (2025, unknown): “Different ages of disorder onset, ages and durations of medication use, types of medication, lack of nutrition, or exposure to illness or toxins can all affect brain trajectories even in the prenatal period [63].”