{"id":154,"date":"2004-07-08T07:33:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T07:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=154"},"modified":"2004-07-08T07:33:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-08T07:33:30","slug":"a-maturational-timetable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/07\/08\/a-maturational-timetable\/","title":{"rendered":"a maturational timetable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The order in which different brain areas reach maturity must be crucial to how activity-guided development   creates functional specialisation (there&#8217;s good stuff on this in <i>Rethinking Innateness<\/i>). Here&#8217;s a maturational timetable (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradsimon.org\/AuditorySystem.shtml\">via<\/a>) for different brain areas:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.idiolect.org.uk\/docs\/jul04\/myelination_timing.jpg?w=580\"><\/p>\n<p>Notice that it&#8217;s areas associated with audition that finish myelination first (in the womb), and the neocortex which finishes last (about 25 years later).<\/p>\n<p>Ref:<\/p>\n<p>Elman, J., Bates, E., Johnson, M., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Parisi, D., &#038; Plunkett, K. (1996). <i>Rethinking innateness: A connectionist perspective on development<\/i>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press\/Bradford Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The order in which different brain areas reach maturity must be crucial to how activity-guided development creates functional specialisation (there&#8217;s good stuff on this in Rethinking Innateness). Here&#8217;s a maturational timetable (via) for different brain areas: Notice that it&#8217;s areas associated with audition that finish myelination first (in the womb), and the neocortex which finishes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-2u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}