Questions for "Fertile Minds" Time 1997

1. What does it mean to say that the infant’s brain is plastic?
2. What would happen to a child deprived of a stimulating environment?
3. While genes control the unfolding of the physical development of the brain, what else is needed? Why is this so?
4. What advantages are provided by the brain’s profusion of connections?
5. What are windows of opportunity? Give examples.
6. What are some of the practical implications of our new understanding of the brain?