Mapping Mind-Brain Development: Towards a Comprehensive Theory
The relations between the developing mind and developing brain are explored. We outline a theory of intellectual development postulating that the mind comprises four systems of processes (domain-specific, attention and working memory, reasoning, and cognizance) developing in four cycles (episodic, r...
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| description | The relations between the developing mind and developing brain are explored. We outline a theory of intellectual development postulating that the mind comprises four systems of processes (domain-specific, attention and working memory, reasoning, and cognizance) developing in four cycles (episodic, realistic, rule-based, and principle-based representations, emerging at birth, 2, 6, and 11 years, respectively), with two phases in each. Changes in reasoning relate to processing efficiency in the first phase and working memory in the second phase. Awareness of mental processes is recycled with the changes in each cycle and drives their integration into the representational unit of the next cycle. Brain research shows that each type of processes is served by specialized brain networks. Domain-specific processes are rooted in sensory cortices; working memory processes are mainly rooted in hippocampal, parietal, and prefrontal cortices; abstraction and alignment processes are rooted in parietal, frontal, and prefrontal and medial cortices. Information entering these networks is available to awareness processes. Brain networks change along the four cycles, in precision, connectivity, and brain rhythms. Principles of mind-brain interaction are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fa8b81c413a24265aae15c1ca2bac56d2023-11-19T22:45:51ZengMDPI AGJournal of Intelligence2079-32002020-04-01821910.3390/jintelligence8020019Mapping Mind-Brain Development: Towards a Comprehensive TheoryGeorge Spanoudis0Andreas Demetriou1Psychology Department, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, CyprusDepartment of Psychology, University of Nicosia, 1700 Nicosia, CyprusThe relations between the developing mind and developing brain are explored. We outline a theory of intellectual development postulating that the mind comprises four systems of processes (domain-specific, attention and working memory, reasoning, and cognizance) developing in four cycles (episodic, realistic, rule-based, and principle-based representations, emerging at birth, 2, 6, and 11 years, respectively), with two phases in each. Changes in reasoning relate to processing efficiency in the first phase and working memory in the second phase. Awareness of mental processes is recycled with the changes in each cycle and drives their integration into the representational unit of the next cycle. Brain research shows that each type of processes is served by specialized brain networks. Domain-specific processes are rooted in sensory cortices; working memory processes are mainly rooted in hippocampal, parietal, and prefrontal cortices; abstraction and alignment processes are rooted in parietal, frontal, and prefrontal and medial cortices. Information entering these networks is available to awareness processes. Brain networks change along the four cycles, in precision, connectivity, and brain rhythms. Principles of mind-brain interaction are discussed.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/8/2/19brainminddevelopmentintelligencemental and brain changesbrain networks |
| spellingShingle | George Spanoudis Andreas Demetriou Mapping Mind-Brain Development: Towards a Comprehensive Theory Journal of Intelligence brain mind development intelligence mental and brain changes brain networks |
| title | Mapping Mind-Brain Development: Towards a Comprehensive Theory |
| title_full | Mapping Mind-Brain Development: Towards a Comprehensive Theory |
| title_fullStr | Mapping Mind-Brain Development: Towards a Comprehensive Theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mapping Mind-Brain Development: Towards a Comprehensive Theory |
| title_short | Mapping Mind-Brain Development: Towards a Comprehensive Theory |
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