By age 4,
A) the brain increases from 40 percent of its adult weight to 60 percent.
B) many parts of the cerebral cortex have overproduced synapses.
C) energy consumption of most cortical regions diminishes to adult levels.
D) synaptic pruning slows or ends.
B
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