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Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 362349, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/362349
Research Article

Changes in Cortical Thickness in 6-Year-Old Children Open Their Mind to a Global Vision of the World

Nicolas Poirel,1,2 Elise Leroux,3,4 Arlette Pineau,1 Olivier Houdé,1,2 and Grégory Simon1

1LaPsyDÉ, UMR 8240, CNRS, Université Paris Descartes and Université de Caen, Sorbonne, 46 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris, France
2Institut Universitaire de France, 75005 Paris, France
3ISTS, UMR 6301, CNRS, CEA, 14000 Caen, France
4CHU de Caen, Service de Psychiatrie, Centre Esquirol, 14074 Caen, France

Received 20 February 2014; Revised 12 June 2014; Accepted 30 June 2014; Published 9 July 2014

Academic Editor: Tianming Liu

Copyright © 2014 Nicolas Poirel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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