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Toddler Sociability
Neuroscience
7 min read
- Social skill development is fundamental to success in school, life and health & well being
- Social skills include sociability (connecting with others) and autonomy (independence)
- Emerge during infancy and mature through childhood and adolescence when social
- interactions and social learning environments grow exponentially
- Social skills & behaviors mature alongside brain connections that process social information
- During toddlerhood a significant increase in myelination found overall in the brain but especially in those social behavior brain areas
- Myelination supports fast & efficient social information processing, underpinning complex social behaviors
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