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2017
May
Neat News 2017-150 (added 2017-05-30)
Visual Cortex Develops for up to 40 Years
Public Domain by Chavez01
| The general scientific view was that the visual cortex - the part of the brain that processes the images sent from the eyes - is fully developed after the first five or six years of life. Scientists have now studied brain tissue of deceased people and found that the visual cortex reaches its maturity around an age of 36 years. |