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SUBMITTER: Colby JB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2962725 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Colby John B JB Van Horn John D JD Sowell Elizabeth R ER
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A fundamental tenet in the field of developmental neuroscience is that brain maturation generally proceeds from posterior/inferior to anterior/superior. This pattern is thought to underlie the similar timing of cognitive development in related domains, with the dorsal frontal cortices-important for decision making and cognitive control-the last to fully mature. While this caudal to rostral wave of structural development was first qualitatively described for white matter in classical postmortem s ...[more]