New directions in the study of early experience.
In this commentary, we review Greenough, Black, and Wallace's conceptual framework for understanding the effects of early experience, and illustrate the applicability of their model with recent data on the consequences for animals and human infants of the acquisition of self-produced locomotion.
D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development*; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003210:Concept Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D008124:Locomotion