Neural plasticity across the lifespan

By Jonathan D. Power, Bradley L. Schlaggar. 2016

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An essential feature of the brain is its capacity to change. Neuroscientists use the term ‘plasticity’ to describe the malleability of neuronal connectivity and circuitry. How does plasticity work? A review of current data suggests that plasticity encompasses many distinct phenomena, some of which operate across most or all of the lifespan, and others that operate exclusively in early development. This essay surveys some of the key concepts related to neural plasticity, beginning with how current patterns of neural activity (e.g., as you read this essay) come to impact future patterns of activity (e.g., your memory of this essay), and then extending this framework backward into more development‐specific mechanisms of plasticity. WIREs Dev Biol 2017, 6:e216. doi: 10.1002/wdev.216

Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Continual Lifelong Learning with Neural Networks: A Review (2018, background): “The brain has evolved mechanisms of neurosynaptic plasticity and complex neurocognitive functions that process continuous streams of information in response to both short- and long-term changes in the environment (Zenke et al., 2017a; Power and Schlaggar, 2016; Murray et al., 2016; Lewkowicz, 2014).”
Incremental Concept Learning via Online Generative Memory Recall (2019, background): “This is due to the special neurophysiological and biological mechanism of learning and memory of human brain which have been widely studied[4], [5].”