Chapter 8: Development
- Video: Experiences build brain architecture. Animation illustrating the use-it or lose-it rule underlying synapse strengthening, weakening, and pruning (1 min 57sec) Section 8.1.4
- Additional Reading: Your brain expands and shrinks over time — these charts show how
- Additional Reading: Gaming improves multitasking skills. Study reveals plasticity in age-related cognitive decline.
- Additional Reading: Sex and drugs and self-control: how the teen brain navigates risk