this describes the brain's tendency to change and adapt as a result of experience and learning
plasticity
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this is a form of plasticity. it is when the Brian has been through trauma and the function of the damaged part of the brain is redistributed to another part of the brain
functional recovery
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During infancy, the brain experiences a rapid growth in the number of these connections, peaking at abut 15,000 at age 2-3
synaptic connections
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study 1 - he studied the Brians of London taxi drivers and found significantly more volume of grey matter in the posterieor hippocampus than in a matches control group.
Maguire
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study 1 - the year of this study
2000
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study 1 - the longer the taxi drivers had been doing their job, the more pronounced the structural difference was. this shows a ...
positive correlation
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Card 2
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this is a form of plasticity. it is when the Brian has been through trauma and the function of the damaged part of the brain is redistributed to another part of the brain
Back
functional recovery
Card 3
Front
During infancy, the brain experiences a rapid growth in the number of these connections, peaking at abut 15,000 at age 2-3
Back
Card 4
Front
study 1 - he studied the Brians of London taxi drivers and found significantly more volume of grey matter in the posterieor hippocampus than in a matches control group.
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