‘Critical Periods’ in Human Cognitive Development

Abstract

Available evidence does not support the view that there are “critical periods” during which children must be exposed to a given learning opportunity or forever suffer some degree of intellectual deficit. Rather, this concept, a carry-over from studies that demonstrated “imprinting” in certain animal species, may hamper the development of a soundly based approach to the learning difficulties of deprived children.

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