Sensitive Periods in the Development of the Brain and Behavior

By Eric I. Knudsen. 2004

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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About sleep's role in memory. (2013, background): “During limited periods early during development, the brain is particularly sensitive to certain experience that instructs neuronal circuits to represent respective information as very persistent memories determining performance throughout later life (650).”
Plasticity in the adult human auditory brainstem following short-term linguistic training (2008, background): “short-term training in adults due to the strong activation of established neural circuitry hampering the acquisition of alternative patterns of circuit connectivity (Knudsen, 2004).”
Different regulation mechanisms for evolved critical periods in learning (2013, background): “1) Experience throughout life: Knudsen [8] discusses how initial experience can change the plasticity of a circuit.”
The Cerebellum, Sensitive Periods, and Autism (2014, background): “These phenomena have been observed in diverse systems that include mammals, songbirds, and barn owls (reviewed in Knudsen, 2004).”
The gut microbiota influences blood-brain barrier permeability in mice (2014, background): “An intact and tightly regulated BBB is also required to protect against colonizing microbiota in neonates during the critical period of brain development (8, 9).”
Evolved Sensitive Periods in Learning (2013, background): “Knudsen (2004) suggests that this property is likely to be found also in other parts of cognitive development, such as in the development of language and social skills.”
Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation (2005, background): “Knudsen (2004) shows that early experience can modify the biochemistry and architecture of neural circuits (we discuss his work further in part III).”
Critical periods and catastrophic interference effects in the development of self-organizing feature maps. (2008, background): “Latterly, alternative terms have been employed such as sensitive or optimal period, which are more neutral as to whether the period of plasticity comes to a complete close (see Birdsong, 2005; Johnson, 2005; Knudsen, 2004).”
Autism spectrum disorders: developmental disconnection syndromes (2007, background): “However, spontaneous prenatal brain activity does contribute to the appropriate wiring of circuits [14,49].”
When and how do children develop knowledge of verb argument structure? Evidence from verb bias effects in a structural priming task (2015, background): “…Smith, & von Noorden, 1996; Daw, 1994; Katz & Shatz, 1996; Kral & Sharma, 2012; Wiesel & Hubel, 1965) suggests that these learning rate changes may be governed by neural mechanisms that are not specific to language learning (e.g., myelination, axon elaboration, synapse elimination, Knudsen, 2004).”
Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) (2008, background): “Animal data indicate that architectural shifts change the patterns of conductivity among circuits during learning (Knudsen 2004).”
Removing brakes on adult brain plasticity: from molecular to behavioral interventions (2010, background): “Neural networks thus sculpted by early experience ultimately become more hardwired (Shatz and Stryker, 1978; Knudsen, 2004; Feldman and Brecht, 2005).”
Got milk? The impact of Heifer International's livestock donation programs in Rwanda on nutritional outcomes (2014, background): “The earliest stages of life for children are both " sensitive, " since the effects of experience during this time on neural and physical development are unusually strong, as well as " critical, " since these effects are largely irreversible (Knudsen, 2004).”