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...

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

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

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

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...

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