Present an understanding of brain development by applying it to aspects of cognitive development in the first year, including language development, perception of faces, emotion awareness, and goal-oriented problem solving.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. An MRI scanning study by Gilmore et al. (2012) found that sensory and motor regions were fairly highly developed at birth and grew slowly in the first year.
2. Behavioral studies show that sensory processes and many motor functions are fairly advanced in the first year.
3. Areas growing most rapidly in the first year were language areas of the frontal and temporal lobes, areas involved with higher order visual processing, such as face recognition, and the insula, which processes bodily sensations and emotions.
4. Behavioral studies show that infants make major steps in perceiving speech and language as well as familiar faces in the first year.
5. Frontal lobe functioning is related to goal-oriented problem solving, which improves dramatically between 8 and 12 months in human infants (for example, searching for hidden objects).
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