OcotilloWells t1_it0zasm wrote on October 20, 2022 at 3:26 AM

Reply to comment by frizbplaya in TIL Critical Periods: Periods of time where an organism's brain is extremely malleable and sensitive to stimuli. If the organism doesn't receive the appropriate stimulus during this critical period to learn a given skill- it maybe difficult or even impossible to develop certain associated functions by electroctopus

I know when I went to military language school in my late 20s, the cadre said I might be too old. A few older people just breezed through, barely studying. I flunked out. I think it was more of a memorization issue, I got the grammar adequately, just couldn't remember enough words fast enough.