David Fleischacker, Ph.D. I take the term “neural demand functions” from Bernard Lonergan’s book on insight (Insight: A Study of Human Understanding). Lonergan was reworking Freud’s psychic censor into a more explanatory framework within intentionality analysis. Neural demands are those neural activities that break into motor-sensory-affective consciousness. Both higher animals and human beings share this […]
Category: Brain Development
Six to Twelve, Mylenated Neurons, Boys and Girls
During the ages 6 – 12, one of the neural developments that takes place is an increasing integration of the brain as a whole through mylinated neurons (white matter). Though boys and girls tend to have the same number of neurons overall, boys will have more white matter in the end. Though there are many […]