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Neuroscience

a developmental window when experience has an unusually strong effect on brain circuits, a softer version of a critical period that allows later change.

In neuroscience, sensitive period refers to a developmental window when experience has an unusually strong effect on brain circuits, a softer version of a critical period that allows later change. This meaning comes from Knudsen (2004) in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.[1]

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References

Knudsen, E. I. (2004). Sensitive Periods in the Development of the Brain and Behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(8), 1412-1425. https://doi.org/10.1162/0898929042304796

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