Episode 54 -- Elizabeth Quinlan, PhD
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Elizabeth Quinlan (University of Maryland, College Park) discusses the relevance of critical periods to plasticity, given current trends in post-critical period plasticity. She outlines her ideas about plasticity being latent and actively constrained by ongoing activity, rather than fundamental properties of the underlying anatomy.
Please be aware that there are some discontinuities due to editing.
Duration: 41 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.