Table 1:

Summary of recommendations in the study of sensitive periods in emotional development

Recommendation	Example
Focus on discrete processes in emotion development	We suggest exploring the possibility of multiple, overlapping critical and sensitive periods for different processes like reward learning, fear conditioning, an, comprehending emotional prosody (see [15] for a discussion of this approach in language)
Focus on what opens, closes, and extends sensitive windows	see [36] for a discussion on how adolescence may influence sensitive windows
Use animal models to illuminate specific mechanisms when possible	see [32] for a discussion of this process in fear conditioning
Modeling as a way to try to disentangle processes	see [3]for a discussion of modeling approaches generally and see [25] for an example this approach