FIGURE 3.10 Emergent effects of early brain damage At 6 years of age, children with congenital brain damage scored the same as normal children on two subscales of an intelligence test. However, the children with brain damage failed to improve and fell progressively farther behind the normal children, so that by adolescence there were large differences between the two groups. (Data from Banich et al., 1990; figure from Kolb, 1995)