During develpment the interaction betwenn mammals and their environment results in;
Learning as the result of experiance is where certain pathways in the barin will become more likely to transmit implses than others- the connections between them are strenghtened;
This is why some skills may be learnt through repetition; The variety of potential pathways in the brain make it possible for animals to adapt to new situations.
Feral children are evidence of limits to learning a child that has been deprived of socialisation e.g as a result of deliberate abuse, plane crash etc will be unable to learn human language after the age of 7.
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