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CHANGES IN PLASTICITY OR ALBERT & THE RAT

ByTeam HUMANITYUAPD

CHANGES IN PLASTICITY OR ALBERT & THE RAT CHANGES IN PLASTICITY By the time a baby is three or four months of age, its behavior provides clues to its having reached new milestones in brain development. At that age, individual infants differ widely in their reaction to events and in their patterns of brain activity…

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NEURAL DARWINISM [ NEWBORN ]

ByTeam HUMANITYUAPD

NEURAL DARWINISM Some scientists argue that as the brain incorporates new experiences and makes new connections among neurons, it expresses a form of evolution through the competition of its various neural networks. Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Gerald Edelman suggests that the brain’s many networks vie against each other in “neural Darwinism.” While genes determine how the…