{"id":8378,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/maturational_gradients\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:04","slug":"maturational_gradients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/maturational_gradients\/","title":{"rendered":"Maturational gradients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gradation of onset or rate of events in early development over the area for a physical substrate (e.g., initiating the making of connections starting in the front and finishing in the back of a structure). &nbsp;Also referred to as morphological gradients, the result is a series of progressively increasing and decreasing differences in the growth rate, metabolism, or physiological activity of cell, organ or organism. &nbsp;The process is governed by a variety of chemical signal molecules that act directly on the movement and development of cells during morphogenesis by forming a concentration gradient in the developmental tissue. &nbsp;Thus, they govern the pattern of tissue development and the positions of various specialized cells with a tissue. &nbsp;Following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemuseum.org.uk\/onlinestuff\/people\/alan%20turing.aspx\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemuseum.org.uk\/onlinestuff\/people\/alan%20turing.aspx&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan Turing<\/a> (1912-1954), the molecules are referred to as morphogens as first discussed in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecm.usp.br\/~cewinter\/aulas\/artigos\/2010\/Turing_1952.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cecm.usp.br\/~cewinter\/aulas\/artigos\/2010\/Turing_1952.pdf&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seminal paper<\/a> in 1952. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"developmental_gradients\">Developmental gradients<\/a>, <a href=\"maturation\">Maturation<\/a>, <a href=\"maturational_perspective-approach\">Maturational perspective\/approach<\/a>, <a href=\"morphogenesis\">Morphogenesis<\/a>, Morphogenetic, Morphological field, <a href=\"noggin\">Noggin<\/a>, <a href=\"polarizer\">Polarizer<\/a>, Skill learning hypothesis<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gradation of onset or rate of events in early development over the area for a physical substrate (e.g., initiating the making of connections starting in the front and finishing in the back of a structure). &nbsp;Also referred to as morphological gradients, the result is a series of progressively increasing and decreasing differences in the growth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/maturational_gradients\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maturational gradients&#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-8378","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\/8378","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=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}