Childrens brains in comparison to Adult brains

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Hi. I'm doing an experiment for science where we test the effect of colour on childrens memory. Most statements I can find apply directly to adults not children - which will be good if there is a specific reason why children remember colours more...

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About.com has done a page about colour psychology. Their information points out how colour was used to treat patients, such as Egyptians and Chinese. About.com also points out that today’s psychologists believe that colour has little effect on the human mind; most of it is embellished to make colours seem relevant to your learning. The aim of this experiment is to try and prove said theory right or wrong. Children use different neuroanatomies (anatomy of nervous system) to adults as they’re brains are still maturing. Seeing as we haven’t been able to find any information about the effects of colour on memory, doing this experiment will help teachers educate more efficiently.

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Hi. I'm doing an experiment for science where we test the effect of colour on childrens memory. Most statements I can find apply directly to adults not children - which will be good if there is a specific reason why children remember colours more...

Heres our opening paragraph:

 

Focus on the bit in bold

firstly, am I correct in saying this?

and secondly how can I expand on this further and more relevant to our report?

 

Help appeciated:D!!!

 

Functional Neuroanatomical Differences Between Adults and School-Age Children in the Processing of Single Words

Bradley L. Schlaggar,15* Timothy T. Brown,3 Heather M. Lugar,1 Kristina M. Visscher,4 Francis M. Miezin,12 Steven E. Petersen1234

 

A critical issue in developmental cognitive neuroscience is the extent to which the functional neuroanatomy underlying task performance differs in adults and children. Direct comparisons of brain activation in the left frontal and extrastriate cortex were made in adults and children (aged 7 to 10 years) performing single-word processing tasks with visual presentation; differences were found in circumscribed frontal and extrastriate regions. Conceivably, these differences could be attributable exclusively to performance discrepancies; alternatively, maturational differences in functional neuroanatomy could exist despite similar performance. Some of the brain regions examined showed differences attributable to age independent of performance, suggesting that maturation of the pattern of regional activations for these tasks is incomplete at age 10.