Neuroplasticity
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The human brain develops slowly, long after birth. Even the adult brain displays plasticity. What are the benefits of the ability to mold a brain physically to adapt to an environment? This job discusses some examples of how this would be adaptive.
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Neuroplasticity is briefly illustrated.
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Plasticity refers to how circuits in the brain change--organize and reorganize--in response to experience, or sensory stimulation
Advantages:
1. Improving functionality after brain damage due to any kind of trauma
2. Improving learning skills - "practice makes perfect" is a good example of the fact that constant performance of a task improves the ability to do the task due to strengthening of neuronal connections. An added convenience is mere thinking about task performance has the same ...
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