Critical and Sensitive Periods

Stretches of development during which the nervous system is especially open to particular experience, such as the critical period and the sensitive period. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes such a period. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Critical and Sensitive Periods rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.