Neuroscience · Developmental & Plastic Brain
A topic within Developmental & Plastic Brain, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
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Patricia Kuhl
Argues infants use statistical learning to tune their perception to their native language's sounds within the first year, and that this window narrows well before a child ever speaks.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Torsten Wiesel & David Hubel
Shows that briefly closing one eye in early life permanently shifts cortical neurons' ocular dominance toward the open eye, demonstrating a critical period beyond which the visual cortex can no longer be rewired by experience.
link checked 17 Sept 2026