The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
passive experience up until about age 25 dramatically shapes the maps in the brain that we have of social relationships of the visual world the auditory world I mean there's just so much data to support this in animals and humans
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
the brain is incredibly plastic from about birth until about age 25 and then somewhere about 25 it's not like the day after your 26th birthday plasticity closes there's a kind tapering off of plasticity and you need different mechanisms to engage plasticity as an adult knowing how to tap into these plasticity mechanisms is very powerful
You know, this time from birth until about 25 is really when all the predictions about the world are being formed, and I think we hear so often about, "Okay, make sure they learn an instrument, play a sport, they're reading, maybe learn another language."