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Scientists show how brain flexibility emerges in infants – EurekAlert
Cognitive flexibility, which refers to the brain’s ability to switch between mental processes in response to external stimuli and different task demands, seems to begin developing during the first two years of life, which is much earlier than previously thoug…
IMAGE: This image is of MRI data, showing neural flexibility over time.
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Credit: Biomedical Research Imaging Center at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to readily switch between mental processes in response to external stimuli and different task demands. For example, when our brains are processing one task, an external stimulus is present, requiring us to switch our mental processes to attend to this external stimulus. This ability of switching from one …
