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Match the following stages of brain development with their corresponding age:
Match the following stages of brain development with their corresponding age:
A newborn baby = Can see, hear, and feel By the age of five = Can talk, ride a bike, and invent imaginary friends At the age of three = Has a hundred trillion connections in the brain First few years of a child's life = Experiences affect brain development
Match the following sensory inputs with their impact on a baby's brain development:
Match the following sensory inputs with their impact on a baby's brain development:
Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch = Create connections between different parts of the brain Listening to different sounds in different sequences = Activate the part of the brain responsible for speech Receiving more attention = Linked to higher IQs Experiences in the first few years of life = Affect the development of the brain
Match the following research findings with their implications for brain development:
Match the following research findings with their implications for brain development:
2010 study = Showed that children who received more attention often had higher IQs Experiment on babies' brains while listening to different sounds = Babies can tell the difference between different patterns Discovery about the number of neurons in a newborn baby's brain = Nearly a hundred billion neurons, same as an adult's brain Research using new technology to 'see' into children's brains = Discovering new information about the way a baby’s brain develops
