About functional cortical specialization: The development of face recognition

摘要: Studying the relationship between the development of the brain and the emergence (or decline) of specific cognitive abilities is a useful way of approaching the links between brain and behaviour, in addition to what is being done in fields of investigation such as human adult neuropsychology and animal neurobiology. Anything that can be learned about how a competence functions in the early stages of its development will tell us something about how it will be organized in later life. A model for the way in which a competence works in adulthood would not be valid if it did not fit in with what is known about how that competence develops.