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That baby who just came into your life – the cute one with the gummy grin and impossibly enticing eyes – already has some behavioral traits hardwired into her brain.
"That’s according to breakthrough research from the University of Virginia and study co-author Tobias Grossmann, a professor of psychology and director of UVA’s Babylab.
Grossmann led the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, with Caroline Kelsey, who earned her Ph.D. at UVA and is now a research fellow in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital.
The findings are deceptively simple. Through brain imaging, the team was able to see that at as early as two weeks of age, different parts of babies’ brains are already talking to each other. In scientific terms, functional connectivity already exists.
“To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that connectivity for this specific brain network develops early in human infancy and plays a role in accounting for individual differences in emerging self-regulation and control skills among infants,” Grossmann said.
The findings mean the neural connections in human brains that determine human behavioral traits are already present from birth and are unique to each individual."
Human behavioral traits
Many of us have children and grandchildren and great.... I will bet that 99.9% of us already knew this.
"That’s according to breakthrough research from the University of Virginia and study co-author Tobias Grossmann, a professor of psychology and director of UVA’s Babylab.
Grossmann led the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, with Caroline Kelsey, who earned her Ph.D. at UVA and is now a research fellow in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital.
The findings are deceptively simple. Through brain imaging, the team was able to see that at as early as two weeks of age, different parts of babies’ brains are already talking to each other. In scientific terms, functional connectivity already exists.
“To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that connectivity for this specific brain network develops early in human infancy and plays a role in accounting for individual differences in emerging self-regulation and control skills among infants,” Grossmann said.
The findings mean the neural connections in human brains that determine human behavioral traits are already present from birth and are unique to each individual."
Human behavioral traits
Many of us have children and grandchildren and great.... I will bet that 99.9% of us already knew this.