Nature/Nurture: Moma's Boys -made or born that way?

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I am hereby requesting Griff's opinion on the Critical Period hypothesis

On a gut level it makes sense. Neural pruning takes place at different stages of development which could eliminate capacity in unused regions of the brain. However the brain is turning out to be more plastic than was taught in the dark ages when we were in school. With the right intervention I bet language could still be acquired although it'd be a much more difficult task requiring a lot more repetition... That's my wild-ass guess.