Preface PART I: SENSITIVE PERIODS IN DEVELOPMENT: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
1. Sensitive Periods in Development: Definition, Existence, Utility, and Meaning
2. Developmental Changes in Sensitivity to Experience PART II: SENSITIVE PERIODS IN INFRAHUMAN PSYCHOBIOLOGY AND HUMAN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
3. Perceptual Development and Experience-Dependent Changes in Cat Visual Cortex
4. Critical Events During Sensitive Periods of Social Development in Rats
5. Imprinting and the Critical Period for Social Attachments: Some Laboratory Investigations
6. Neural Insult and Critical Period Concepts
7. Crucial Period Effect in Psychoendocrinology: Two Syndromes, Abuse Dwarfism and Female (CVAH) Hermaphroditis PART III: SENSITIVE PERIODS IN HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY
8. Is There a “Sensitive Period” in Human Mental Development?
9. Relevance of the Notion of a Critical Period to Language Acquisition
10. Critical Periods in Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality Development
11. Mother-Infant Bonding as a Critical Period
12. Critical Periods in Processes of Social Organization