In developmental psychology and developmental biology, a critical period is a maturational stage in the lifespan of an organism during which the nervous...

The critical period hypothesis is a theory within the field of linguistics and second language acquisition that claims a person can only achieve native-like...

"America's Critical Period" to the era in American history between 1783 and 1789. The phrase was popularized by John Fiske's 1888 book, The Critical Period of...

Critical race theory (CRT) is an academic field focused on the relationships between social conceptions of race and ethnicity, social and political laws...

"imprinted" onto the subject. Imprinting is hypothesized to have a critical period. The best-known form of imprinting is filial imprinting, in which a...

not universally accepted, and is the subject of ongoing debate. The critical-period hypothesis of the linguist Eric Lenneberg states that full native competence...

Critical Role is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. The show started streaming partway through...

language attrition and the critical period hypothesis. The critical period for language claims that there is an optimal time period for humans to acquire language...

adult mice that were tone-reared during auditory critical period. Adult learning and critical period sensory manipulations induce comparable shifts in...

critical period of auditory development, after which period cognitive strategies favor global and relational processing. Proponents of the critical-period...

first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. In some countries, the term native language or mother tongue refers...

titled Métamorphose de Narcisse, This painting is from Dalí's paranoiac-critical period and depicts his interpretation of the Greek myth of Narcissus. Dalí...

their first language. These views are closely associated with the critical period hypothesis. In acquiring an L2, Hyltenstam found that around the age...

its classical era with the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD), marking a critical period. A term for the Chinese language is still "Han language", and the dominant...

sufficient visual deprivation during the so-called "critical period". The maximum "critical period" in humans is from birth to two years old. Amblyopia...

grammatical knowledge. Researchers concluded that the theory of a critical period was true; Genie was too old to learn how to speak productively, although...

mortality rate in the U.S. is 6.8 per 1,000 live births. Babyhood is a critical period in personality development when the foundations of adult personality...

intelligence occur at either the onset of development, during the critical period, or during old age (see neuroplasticity). Charles Spearman, who coined...

non-native language was learned. The critical period theory states that if learning takes place after the critical period (usually considered around puberty)...

opportunity or critical window, is a period of time during which some action can be taken that will achieve a desired outcome. Once this period is over, or...

therefore it would follow that there is a critical period for intellectual development as well. While the critical period for the visual cortex ends in early...

examines the power of psychedelic drugs like MDMA in re-opening the critical period in social reward learning. Gül Dölen; Ayeh Darvishzadeh; Kee Wui Huang;...

synaptogenesis. Synaptogenesis is particularly important during an individual's critical period, during which there is a certain degree of synaptic pruning due to...

fetus as gestation is itself a critical period for an embryo/fetus, though some problems affecting height during this period are resolved by catch-up growth...

and that there seems to be a critical period in childhood for language development just as there is a critical period for vision development in cats...

served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1768 to 1772, a critical period leading toward the American War of Independence. Born in Fairford,...

ill-formed sentences, as well as correct these, is at 6 years. During the critical period between 4 and 6 years old, there is a significant increase in the accuracy...

Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgement by the application of rational...

(initially) extremely successful campaign, Philip's reign remains a critical period in Spanish history. After Philip III's older half-brother Don Carlos...

primary source on Roman history. The book discusses the significant and critical period of the Principate from the end of the Republic to the reign of Domitian;...