Critical Thinking About Critical Periods

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The effect of learning on life history evolution (2007, unknown): “An important feature of human learning of relevance here i s the fact that for many skills there are critical periods after which further learning becomes more difficult [1, 11].”
Critical thinking about critical periods: Perspectives on a critical period for language acquisition. (2001, background): “…primary language, show effects of age of exposure on their grammatical skills in ASL as much as 50 years later, even though they may not control any other language with great proficiency (Emmorey, 1991; Emmorey and Corina, 1990; Mayberry and Fischer, 1989; Mayberry and Eichen, 1991; Newport, 1990).”
Lifetime Learning as a Factor in Life History Evolution (2009, unknown): “An additional factor that complicates this learning process for many tasks is that humans and some other animal species have critical periods for learning, and outside that period the learning is more difficult [2, 20].”