Maturation of Circuits Underlying Learning and Memory

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Our perceptual, cognitive and emotional abilities emerge at specific times during development and are critically shaped by experiences that occur during early life. Early development is also a period during which key brain areas involved in emotional processing, such as the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, are maturing. This maturation coincides with the emergence of behaviours dependent on hippocampus-prefrontal cortex networks, such as the ability to generate long lasting memories, or memory persistence. Despite convergent evidence of volumetric, structural, and synaptic changes taking place in prefrontal cortex and hippocampus at the same time as memory persistence emerges,