association-fibers

Updated: May 1, 2025

Far greater and more protracted, though unseen, are the changes which take place in the nervous system, both in the development of the cortex and expansion of the convolutions and the growth of association-fibers by which the elements shoot together and relation of things are seen, which hitherto seemed independent, to which it seems as if for a few years the energies of growth were chiefly directed.

G. Stanley Hall - Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene