Brain growth and development.

Brain Development and Function

• The corpus callosum is responsible for the coordination of activity between the right and left hemispheres.

Attention and Myelination

• The frontal lobe is involved in attention and completes myelination by age 5.

Memory Transfer

• The hippocampus is involved in the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory.

Autobiographical Memory

• The theory of autobiographical memory proposes that autobiographical memory before age 2 is limited because the awareness of self becomes stable at about 2 years of age and serves as a new organizer around which events can be encoded, stored, and retrieved in memory as personal.

Brain Growth and Development

• The main reason for the increase in brain size and weight during early childhood is the formation of new connections and synapses.

Myelination in Early Childhood

• The axons of the central nervous system undergo the most myelination during early childhood.

Infantile Amnesia

• Infantile amnesia is the phenomenon where people tend to have few or no memories of their early childhood, typically before the age of 2-3.