2 months – can roll from side to back - Milestones; gross and fine motor, Motor development - Reflexive and Primitive, Perceptual Development - At birth, babies prefer sweet smells, and cannot see in color as they do not yet have full colour sensitivity, Heredity - May cause disabilities or shorter life span, Nurons - Babies are born with roughly 100 billion brain cells, Plasticity (changes) - How experiences reorganize themselves in the brain (memory), Synaptic connections - Age 0 – 10, brain forms trillions of connections, Lateralization - Brain is divided down the middle and connected with the corpus callosum, Handedness - 90% of the world human population is right-handed, Cerebellum - coordinates voluntary movements such as posture, balance, coordination, and speech, Recticular Fromation - Matrix of nerve fibers and nerve cell bodies that form the brainstem, Corpus Callosum - to integrate motor, sensory, and cognitive performances between the cerebral cortex on one side of the brain, Myelinization - As the child moves, they develop more nerve insulation and in turn, develop better body control, Hemispheres - Left vs. Right brain known as, Synapses - Connections do not stop after early childhood, Placticity - Is also shaped by our environment and actions,

Module 04 Prenatal & Infant Development - Brain

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