Last week, I talked a little bit about several times during our lifespan, called critical periods, where we are particularly sensitive to input from our environment. Input like light and eye muscle input to the eyes when we are developing our depth perception in early childhood. Input like hormones and other signal chemicals coming...
For most of us, if you’re exposed to more than one language as a young child, it’s much easier to become fluent in those multiple languages, and the language skills stick with you much better than if you try to learn another language in adulthood. We often think of this feat in childhood as...
Happy is a perfume that my daughter used to wear sometimes when she was a kid. She got small bottles of Happy from my mother. It kinda does smell like Happy, I think. Or, at least, it conjures some happy times. Our sense of smell is intimately tied to our emotions and memory. It’s...
