Critical period regulation

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue , 2004, Pages 549-579

  Hensch, Takao K ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Environment; Experience; GABA; NMDA

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLIMBING FIBER; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EXPERIENCE; EYE DOMINANCE; GENICULATE BODY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ORIENTATION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA; REVIEW; SINGING; SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SMELLING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SOUND DETECTION; STRESS; TASTE; TONOTOPY; VIBRISSA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 3943087045     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144327     Document Type: Review

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