Critical periods in speech perception: New directions

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 173-196

  Werker, Janet F ^a,c   Hensch, Takao K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; GABA; Infancy; Language acquisition; Parvalbumin; Perineuronal net

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964310852     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015104     Document Type: Article

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