Describe research findings that support increasing specialization of the brain in middle childhood, and discuss other findings that support increasing integration among brain areas.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Younger children recover better from brain damage occurring to language or spatial regions than older children or adults, indicating that the brain becomes more specialized and less plastic with age.
2. Studies using fMRI techniques show that younger children activate wider areas of the brain than older children and adults for tasks such as facial recognition, suggesting that brain activity becomes more localized due to increasing specialization.
3. Integration: EEG studies indicate that 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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