Developmental Psychology PSYCH 60 Flashcards
Psychological development from birth to adulthood, emphasizing infancy and the early and middle childhood years. The nature of change during childhood and theories of development
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New Neurons in the Adult Brain Are Involved in Sensory Learning
Institut Pasteur and the CNRS
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Sientists demonstrated: new neurons produced in adults react preferentially to reward-related sensory stimuli and help speed up the association between sensory information and reward.
Adult-born neurons play an important role in the identification of a sensory stimulus and the positive value associated with that sensory experience.
The neurons generated shortly after birth are unable to perform this function.
