In relation to the study of cognitive development, neuroscience research can be described as providing consilience: the agreement of two or more inductions drawn from different sets of data. In other words, neuroscience research has linked the biological mechanisms that have been described by cognitive psychologists—which have been either ignored or controversial within the medical community. The research results are promising; besides being implemental in understanding the relationship of experience and brain plasticity, neuroscience research has demonstrated its capacity to detect problems before they are exhibited through observable behavior. Continue reading →