From: Scientific American
Transcendent Thinking May Boost Teen Brains
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These and a succession of other scholars, such as Richard Lerner of Tufts University, William Damon of Stanford and Kurt W. Fischer of Harvard, characterized adolescence as a period of emerging capacities for abstract thinking that, together with heightened social sensitivity and a propensity for strong emotion, enable teenagers to infer overarching principles or hidden personal lessons from specific experiences or events. Adolescents seem almost compelled to look for these connections and their deeper meaning, as I had seen in my Boston classroom.
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Another study using the same large-scale, long-term data, led by Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington, showed that the stress of the pandemic was associated with increased and earlier thinning of the cortex among teens.
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