You prune away the weaker branches so that the remaining, important branches, can grow stronger, and this process, which effectively fine-tunes brain tissue according to the species-specific environment, is happening in prefrontal cortex and in other brain regions during the period of human adolescence.
Obrezujete slabije grane tako da ostale, važne grane mogu narasti snažnije i taj proces, koji učinkovito podešava moždano tkivo prema okruženju specifičnom za određenu vrstu, događa se u prefrontalnom korteksu i u drugim područjima mozga tijekom razdoblja ljudske adolescencije.