{"id":8241,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/interactive_specialization_approach_-or_hypothesis\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:34","slug":"interactive_specialization_approach_-or_hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/interactive_specialization_approach_-or_hypothesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive specialization approach (or hypothesis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of three general approaches to developmental cognitive neuroscience that assumes postnatal functional brain development involves a process of organizing inter-regional interactions so that the response properties of a specific region may be determined by its patterns of connectivity to other regions and their current activity states. &nbsp;It means that the brain is not initially organized into distinct modules and only becomes so during development as an emergent property of both biological maturation and experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"developmental_cognitive_neuroscience\">Developmental cognitive neuroscience<\/a>, <a href=\"maturation_versus_learning_debate\">Maturation versus learning debate<\/a>, <a href=\"maturational_perspective-approach\">Maturational perspective\/approach<\/a>, <a href=\"modularity\">Modularity<\/a>, <a href=\"skill_learning_hypothesis-approach\">Skill learning hypothesis\/approach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of three general approaches to developmental cognitive neuroscience that assumes postnatal functional brain development involves a process of organizing inter-regional interactions so that the response properties of a specific region may be determined by its patterns of connectivity to other regions and their current activity states. &nbsp;It means that the brain is not initially &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/interactive_specialization_approach_-or_hypothesis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interactive specialization approach (or hypothesis)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}