Neuroplasticity
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"In the 1960s, Paul Bach-y-Rita invented a device that allowed blind people to read, perceive shadows, and distinguish between close and distant objects. This "machine was one of the first and boldest applications of neuroplasticity." (Doidge 2007) The patient sat in an electrically stimulated chair. Behind the chair, a large camera scanned the area, sending electrical signals of the image to four hundred vibrating stimulators on the chair against the patient's skin. The six experimental subjects eventually could recognize a picture of the fashion model Twiggy." |
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Neuroplasticity is a non-specific neuroscience term referring to the ability of the brain and nervous system in all species to change structurally and functionally as a result of input from the environment.
See also
- Activity-dependent plasticity
- Arrowsmith School
- Brain fitness
- Edward Taub
- Environmental enrichment (neural)
- Malleable intelligence
- Metaplasticity
- Michael M. Merzenich
- Neuroconstructivism
- Neuroplastic effects of pollution
- Synaptic plasticity
- Vision restoration therapy
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