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Adult brain neuroplasticity
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What experts have said about Adult brain neuroplasticity
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Adult brains change through attention rather than passive experience.
“The brain of the adult does not change just because of passive experience. The brain of the adult— and this is true in humans too— changes because of what you attend to”
Open the episode · #2553 - Andrew HubermanListen at 1:21:48
Adult brains can continuously change neural connections despite relatively fixed cell numbers.
“just because we have a fixed number, relatively fixed number of cells, doesn't mean that we can't change the connections between those cells. And that's happening all the time.”
Open the episode · Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy WoodListen at 8:06
Complete infant-like plasticity would generally be undesirable for adults.
“I don't think we'd want the plasticity of an infant. Even though when you're doing, let's say, language learning, you say, oh, I wish I could learn this as well as I did when I was seven, but generally it's not a state that you would desire.”
Open the episode · Science & Tools of Learning & Memory | Dr. David EaglemanListen at 38:32
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