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period [1]. If so, the facilitation of visual plasticity after binocular deprivation [8] may be due to the removal of mutual inhibitions between the two eyes. Moreover, the improvement in performance with an amblyopic eye as a result of occluding the fellow eye [5] might be at least partially accounted for by this boosting effect, although the combination of training with an amblyopic eye and d...

Disadvantaged children: what have they compelled us to learn?

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS: THE MILTON J. E. SENN SEMINAR Today we are participating in the Milton J. E. Senn Seminar on Child Development titled "Disadvantaged Children: What Have They Compelled Us To Learn?". There is a hopeful note in the title, namely that children can compel us to learn. The optimistic note is appropriate because Milton Senn, along with his extraordinary critical scholarly capa...

Born to Learn: What Infants Learn from Watching Us

Imitation is a powerful form of learning commonly used by children, adults and infants. A child's enthusiasm for imitative behavior prompts parental attention and interaction, and provides a mechanism for transmitting appropriate cultural and social behavior. Although simple imitative behavior is evident in the postnatal period, by around 14 months infants remember and repeat actions they obser...