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Genomic Press

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The criticome framework: Understanding the criticome. Five categories of experiential information (left: sensory integration, motor encoding, social scaffolding, cultural transmission, environmental context) become integrated into developing neural architecture during critical periods of synaptic plasticity, spanning prenatal development through approximately age 25.

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Julio Licinio

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