Old dogs learning new tricks: Neuroplasticity beyond the juvenile period

Publication year: 2011 Source: Developmental Review, Available online 21 October 2011 Angeline S. Lillard, Alev Erisir Twenty years ago, the prevalent view in Psychology was that although learning and the formation of new memories are lifelong occurrences, the neural changes associated with these events were all in the existing receptors. No new neural hardware, from synapses to neurons, was thought to appear after a protracted period early in life. In the past 20 years, another view has supplanted this one, showing that although the juvenile period is especially suited to neuroplastic adaptation, there is hard neuroplastic change later in life as well.

Publication year: 2011 Source: Developmental Review, Available online 21 October 2011 Angeline S. Lillard, Alev Erisir Twenty years ago, the prevalent view in Psychology was that although learning and the formation of new memories are lifelong occurrences, the neural changes associated with these events were all in the existing receptors. No new neural hardware, from synapses to neurons, was thought to appear after a protracted period early in life. In the past 20 years, another view has supplanted this one, showing that although the juvenile period is especially suited to neuroplastic adaptation, there is hard neuroplastic change later in life as well.

Read More:
Old dogs learning new tricks: Neuroplasticity beyond the juvenile period

Related posts:

  1. Neural plasticity and neurorehabilitation: Teaching the new brain old tricks
  2. The juvenile transition: A developmental switch point in human life history
  3. The management of bipolar disorder in the perinatal period and risk factors for postpartum relapse
  4. Event related potentials to digit learning: Tracking neurophysiologic changes accompanying recall performance
  5. Learning about compliance under asymmetric information
  6. Comparison of 3 different machine learning methods to classify the emotional states using physiological responses
  7. When babies watch television: Attention-getting, attention-holding, and the implications for learning from video material
  8. Neural bases of recovery after brain injury
  9. Learning heuristic functions for large state spaces
  10. Correction of Longitudinal Epiphyseal Bracket Disease with External Fixation: A Case Report with 6-year Follow-up Period – Corrected Proof