Study Of Neuroscience: An American Childhood

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The reason the experiences of young children lead them to view truth differently to adults, is that children have brains that are way less developed than adults. This is the reason babies think things cease to exist when playing peekaboo (And at our age, not really anymore.) This is why we study Neuroscience, the study of the nervous system. Some children will think that when something is put in a drawer, it disappeared, when it is just inside the drawer. This is how Dillard
In An American Childhood thinks that the luminous oblong that is described to have “Two joined parts, a tail, and a head like a Chinese Dragon” that is running across the corners of her room is really just a car's headlights reflecting off different objects. This is also

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