Progressive use of abstract concepts seems to reflect both maturation and learning.
That perceptual functioning should change with the perceiver's age is expected on the grounds that psychological development stems from maturation and learning.
For students, the writing exercise was a way for personal maturation and learning how to talk about sensitive topics under difficult circumstances.
According to the alternative Aristotelian conception of the mind, imprinted genes may affect the development instinctive behaviours and verbal and nonverbal behaviours growing out of instincts as the result of maturation and learning.
As cognitive capacities increase with maturation and learning, the neocortex and the cortico-amygdala pathway become increasingly more involved.
A large body of literature has demonstrated an important role for Notch-Delta signaling in neuronal and glial specification, neuronal maturation and learning and memory [8].
Pot smoking changes brain anatomy, retards maturation and impairs learning, memory and judgment.
We suggest that low brain 5-HT in the C-LHPA group may operate as a vulnerability trait, but other protective environmental factors, as well as brain maturation and new learning, may have come into play with adolescence and early adulthood to support impulse control despite low 5-HT.
Furthermore, conditional knockout of the Nrn1 gene in mice delays development, maturation of axons and dendritic arbors, synaptic maturation and effective learning.
The second part deals with the maturation of universities, academies, and learned societies.
It does so through regulated release of JH, with pleiotropic effects on ovarian maturation, adipose tissue, learning and memory, diapause, innate immunity, and ageing (Nijhout and Riddiford, 1974; Jowett and Postlethwait, 1980; Fahrbach and Robinson, 1996; Wyatt and Davey, 1996; Flatt et al., 2005; Riddiford, 2012; Yamamoto et al., 2013).
