Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to change structure and function in response to experience. What are the factors that change the brain and how did scientists discover them? Discussed in this episode: The history of the idea neuroplasticity, early neuroplasticity experiments, materialist explanations in neuroscience, pioneering environmental enrichment findings by Donald Hebb, caveats to environmental enrichment studies, monocular deprivation studies by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, real-world application of environmental enrichment studies, the effects of poverty and low socioeconomic status on brain development, the effects of rigorous training on the brain, studies of neuroplasticity in London taxi drivers, neuroplasticity in blind people, and behavioral manipulation using optogenetics.

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