One Part of the Brain Unexpectedly Continues to Grow in Adulthood (IMAGE)

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One Part of the Brain Unexpectedly Continues to Grow in Adulthood

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Researcher shows the child images of his brain just taken on the MRI machine. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 6, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Gomez at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Microstructural proliferation in human cortex is coupled with the development of face processing."

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Jesse Gomez and Kalanit Grill-Spector at the Vision and Perception Neuroscience Lab

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