... a challenge arises in raleting dat across species. It is unlclear whether there exiswts homologous regions in the human brain. Further studies perhaps using fMRI experiments on monkeys in parallel with human subjects would enable a more direct comparison (Kanwisher intro) Functional brain imaging provides precision in locating regions within the brain that participate in particular tasks. It ... brain imaging and other data such as that found in the neurpsholocical literature, a model of the human neural system that mediates face perpcetion. The model has a branching structure that emph...

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... appear to reflect both an elimination of synapses and an increase in myelination, a process by which glial cells surround neuronal axons and enhance the speed and distance of signal transmission. A parallel increase in overall metabolism occurs in the frontal lobes during the first decade of life and then decreases during early adolescence to reach adult levels by the age of 16 ... that occur during learning. One brain region that is highly involved in memory formation and exhibits a tremendous amount of neural plasticity is the hippocampus. The hippocampus is an old cortical structure ...

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