Model of Cognitive Development

Let us consider the model of cognitive development based on the various aspects mentioned in the previous section. The major functional structure of the human brain-spine system is a hierarchical one reflecting the evolutionary process, and consists of spine, brain stem, diencephalon, cerebellum, limbic system, basal ganglia, and neocortex. Here, we regard this hierarchy as the first analogy toward the cognitive developmental model, and the flow of functional development is indicated at the center of Fig. 1, that is, reflex, sensorimotor mapping, perception, voluntary motion, and higher order cognition.

Hereafter, we briefly show the flow of the development model with studies related to CDR and the related disciplines.

Fig 1: Based on figure 3 in reference [23]