Girls Mature Faster Than Boys. Part 2 of 3

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And “If you think about a group network, nearby friends might give you very similar information – you might hear the same news from different people,” Kaiser said in a university news release. “People from different cities or countries are more undoubtedly to give you new information”. Similarly, some old information in the brain might be redundant.

But connecting new information – like visual input about a person’s face with acoustic input about their voice – is “vital in making discernment of the outside world. Study co-leader Sol Lim, also of Newcastle University, outlined why earlier brain-connection changes in girls might explain why they tend to mature sooner than boys.

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