Maryanne Wolf

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

American Educator

Sue Miller

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

American Writer

August Krogh

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.

Danish Scientist

Jacob Bronowski

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

English Scientist

Paul Bloom

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

Canadian Psychologist

Frank Zappa

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

American Singer

Roz Chast

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

American Cartoonist

Plasticity often refers to a skill or ability developing with practice, especially in learning.

Learning Context

The word plasticity is used to express potential for change or growth in a person or object.

Growth Potential

Plasticity can be neutral or negative, depending on the context, like adapting bad habits.

Not Always Positive

In art, plasticity refers to a material's responsiveness to being shaped by an artist's hands.

Artistic Material

Plasticity describes physical objects that can be molded, not concepts or ideas.

Physical Form

In science, plasticity helps explain how living things adapt at a cellular level, not just behaviorally.

Scientific Adaptation

Though it sounds material, in science, plasticity includes how organisms functionally change, like adaptation.

Not Just Physical

Use 'plasticity' in biology to describe how natural selection can influence an organism's features over time.

Biology Specific

 that are really good at inducing learning and plasticity, and the inhibitory parts haven't come on yet. So when we say that babies and young children are bad at paying attention, what we really mean is that they're bad at not paying attention. So they're bad at getting rid of all the interesting things that could tell them something and just looking at the thing that's important.

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 But you might not be. There's one more thing you can do to protect yourself from experiencing the symptoms of Alzheimer's, even if you have the full-blown disease pathology ablaze in your brain. It has to do with neural plasticity and cognitive reserve. Remember, the experience of having Alzheimer's

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 Scientists have been conducting experiments using new forms of technology, which they believe may encourage brain plasticity in people with aphasia. Meanwhile, many people with aphasia remain isolated, afraid that others won't understand them or give them extra time to speak.

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 but inside a computer. So the individual cells have an evolutionary history, but this organism has never existed before. It was evolved in this virtual world, and then we went ahead and made it in the lab, and you can see this amazing plasticity.

Michael Levin: The...

 to allow locomotion without the robot, maybe even without pharmacology or stimulation. My hope here is to be able to create the personalized condition to boost the plasticity of the brain and the spinal cord. And this is a radically new concept

Grégoire Courtine: The...

 or whether the individual is rewarded in the behavior. This is actually very powerful. This lifelong capacity for plasticity, for brain change, is powerfully expressed. It is the basis of our real differentiation, one individual from another.

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 leading to greater life expectancy so it's the same way like those action video games have a number of ingredients that are actually really powerful for brain plasticity learning attention vision etc and so we need and we're

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 far such a result has eluded scientists the therapy the impact of this type of intervention in humans is difficult to predict but this very surprising plasticity and recovery that we have observed in the rat open promise'

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 So, how can we take this incredible capacity of plasticity of the brain and get people to experience their world differently? Well, one of the ways we do it in my lab and studio is we translate the light into sound,

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 in red wine as leading to greater life expectancy. So it's the same way, like those action video games have a number of ingredients that are actually really powerful for brain plasticity, learning, attention,