Changes in Cortical Thickness in 6-Year-Old Children Open Their Mind to a Global Vision of the World

Even if objectively presented with similar visual stimuli, children younger than 6 years of age exhibit a strong attraction to local visual information (e.g., the trees), whereas children older than 6 years of age, similar to adults, exhibit a visual bias toward global information (e.g., the forest)...

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Main Authors: Nicolas Poirel, Elise Leroux, Arlette Pineau, Olivier Houdé, Grégory Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/362349