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Record 1 2020-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
CONT

Brain growth periodization or brain periodization was a theory of human brain growth stages developed in the 1970s … [it was] reported that the human brain undergoes alternating periods of growth spurts and growth plateaus from birth to adolescence. … Attention and support for the theory of brain growth periodization rose and declined within a few decades.

Key term(s)
  • brain periodisation
  • brain growth periodisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Psychologie scolaire

Spanish

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