Other than accent, is there anything that children learn better than adults? Is there even anything that adults do not learn much faster?
I'm wondering if recovery from blindness, or other sensory impairments, would benefit from such a substance, if used correctly.
NPR reports on a study giving volprioc acid to adults and training them on pitch (singing):
Brain plasticity is useful for a whole lot more than learning pitch. As the article notes it would be invaluable for training one's ear to pick up sounds of foreign languages, but also it seems reasonable to this commentator that high levels of plasticity during rationality training or other forms of self-development would result in more transformative results.