I'm not scientifically literate enough to comment on much of it (and I didn't click on any of the links you provided in your post) but I guess it goes to show how easy it is for bad science to be popularized and taken for granted. The 'brain doesn't fully develop until 25' is a really common dogma that people cite as fact.
Apparently I got some things wrong. I remember reading that the subjects were 21 or something.
I agree, you find variation in different age groups, at least after a certain age (so far, as far I know, there are no infant prodigies).
All it takes is some studying. Just research the things you don't understand. I didn't really think it was hard to understand at all and pretty straight forward in the post, but idk. And the brain variation across age groups, you don't need to be some prodigy to have a higher maturation index than someone older, it's just a result of their environment, which isn't rare at all for a much younger person to possess greater maturation index than someone much older. Again, I would recommend you do some studying. Curious, was there anything you didn't understand about the study at all?
I didn't really spend much time trying to properly digest it because I'm not really passionate about the topic, to be honest.
I did find it interesting that some 8-year-olds have a higher maturation index than some 30-year-olds though. Does that apply to the prefrontal cortex myth?
What you have to understand about brain development is that it's non-linear/dynamic in nature. I already explained this in my post already. Once you understand the non-linear/dynamic nature of white and grey matter, you would understand how that would be applied to the real world and the implications of that. The thing is, we mature based on the experiences we undergo that shapes our brain, not necessarily the other way around. Again, it feels like I'm repeating myself and if you spent time reading my post, then you would logically infer that it applies to the prefrontal cortex as well since I already explained what brain processing order is and the non-linear dynamic nature of brain development. The questions you ask is telling that you didn't either fully read or understand what I wrote.
