How the Timing of Experience Can Affect the Ontogeny of Learning

A chapter on the topic of how the timing of particular events affects the ontogeny of learning might be expected to proceed, roughly, through these three steps: first, a description of the time course for the emergence of the capacity to learn; second, a consideration of the development of the stages that lead to maximally effective learning; and third, analysis of how the course of the ontogeny of learning is affected by perturbing the prior sequence of events that normally would occur in the animal’s development.