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Neuroplasticity

A brain with neural connections extending outward symbolizes neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to adapt and reorganize its neural pathways in response to experiences.

The brain's capacity to rewire itself in response to experience, injury or sustained training. In early-blind adults, the most dramatic example is cross-modal reassignment: visual cortex, deprived of input from the eyes, gets recruited for touch, hearing, language and spatial tasks. The phenomenon is well documented but its limits are not. Adult brains plainly reorganise; how far, how fast and under what conditions remain active research questions.

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