Growing Evidence of Brain Plasticity
Offered By: TED via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Explore neuroscientist Michael Merzenich's groundbreaking research on brain plasticity in this 23-minute TED Talk. Discover how the brain's ability to actively rewire itself can be harnessed to enhance skills and recover lost function. Learn about the two great epochs of brain plasticity, the enlargement of specific brain surface zones induced by training, and learning-induced changes in spatial filters. Delve into the rehabilitative extensions of brain plasticity research, including advances in standardized language battery scores and large-scale improvements resulting from neuroscience-based training. Gain insights into how these findings relate to aging and potential applications for personal development.
Syllabus
Intro
Built For Change
An adult brain: Constructed from a wealth of experience and knowledge.
Remodeling the processing machinery of the brain.
Two great epochs of brain plasticity
Enlargement of specific 3b hand surface zones induced by training.
Learning-induced changes in spatial filters.
The products of plasticity paralleling perceptual/skill learning?
Rehabilitative extensions of brain plasticity research
Advances in standardizd language battery scores "Language Quotients"
Related problems arise in aging
Large-scale improvements result from neuroscience-based training
Some of MY issues.
Strictly YOUR issues.
Taught by
TED
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