Interactive Contributions of Genes and Early Experience to Behavioral Development: Sensitive Periods and Lateralized Brain and Behavior

Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 400-433

  Rogers, Lesley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Early life in most species temporary disappearance of attachment figure; Examining interaction between genetic and epigenetic factors during development of behavior; Importance of specific experiences during sensitive periods; Imprinting memory, encoded in different locations in each hemisphere; Interactive contributions of genes and early experience to behavioral development, sensitive periods and lateralized brain and behavior; Pre hatching sensitivity to light exposure; Sensitive period for imprinting; Sensitive periods of development in precocial birds; Sensitive periods of development linked by common features of hemispheric lateralization; Social experience with siblings in early life, for precocial species

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EID: 84878335999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444327632.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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