cognitive control functions, does not completely mature until a child reaches young adulthood. We also know that the cortex does not complete its development, particularly in the area of the “social brain” (defined by neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and her colleagues at University College London as including the medial prefrontal cortex, temporal–parietal junction, posterior superior temporal sulcus, and anterior temporal cortex), until young adulthood.

