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Input (English): at the end of the 20th century there was an emerging consensus among developmental neurobiologists that the establishment of thalamocortical connections -lrb- at about 26 weeks -rrb- is a critical event with regard to fetal perception of pain.
Output (English): in the last part of the 1900s , developmental neurobiologists agreed that thalamocortical connections were important to how a fetus feels pain.