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. 2023 Aug;27(8):694-695.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.04.003. Epub 2023 Jun 13.

No evidence for discontinuity between infants and adults

Shari Liu  1 , Gal Raz  2 , Frederik Kamps  2 , Tobias Grossmann  3 , Rebecca Saxe  4
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No evidence for discontinuity between infants and adults

Shari Liu et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Aug.
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Keywords: cognitive development; cognitive neuroscience; infancy.

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(A) Circuit underlying vision and gaze in infants and adults. Visual information flows from eyes to cortical regions in both infants and adults. The debate concerns when cortical regions begin to influence eye movements (blue arrows). (B) Alternative proposals for the strength of cortical influence over development. While B&A propose that cortical regions have no influence before age 3–6 months, and thus argue for developmental discontinuity in the neural basis of cognition, we propose that cortical regions begin with weak influence that gradually strengthens, consistent with continuity in the neural basis of cognition.
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