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Brain scientists say in the first five years of life there is an explosion in your brain that stays with you all your life. The co-directors of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington told a 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival audience we're in the midst of a revolution in our understanding of development of the early brain.

The 'Big Bang' in a childhood brain

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