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  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Understanding cortical tissue changes during development is crucial for explaining cognitive improvements.
  • High-level visual areas, particularly those for face and place recognition, undergo significant transformations from childhood to adulthood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how cortical tissue properties evolve with age.
  • To correlate microstructural and functional changes in visual areas with behavioral improvements in recognition tasks.
  • To propose a new model for brain development.

Main Methods:

  • Quantitative and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to study children and adults.
  • Microstructural properties and functional selectivity of visual areas were assessed.
  • Postmortem cytoarchitectonic measurements were employed for validation.

Main Results:

  • Development of face-selective regions is primarily driven by microstructural proliferation, unlike place-selective regions.
  • Increased microstructural proliferation correlates with enhanced functional selectivity for faces and improved face recognition.
  • Adults exhibit differentiated tissue properties between face- and place-selective regions, confirmed by cytoarchitectonic data.

Conclusions:

  • Cortical development, particularly in face-processing areas, involves significant tissue proliferation.
  • Emergent brain function and behavior may result from tissue proliferation, challenging the exclusive role of synaptic pruning.
  • This study provides a new perspective on the mechanisms underlying cognitive maturation.