Describe research findings that support increasing specialization of the brain in middle childhood, and other findings that support increasing integration among brain areas
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Younger children recover better from brain damage occurring to language or spatial regions than older children, indicating that the brain becomes more specialized and less plastic with age.
fMRI studies show that younger children activate wider areas of the brain for the same task than older children and adults.
Integration: EEG studies indicate there is more “cross-talk” between distant areas of the brain with age, as indicated by electrodes that show simultaneous activity in widely separated brain regions.
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