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Neuroscience of Music – How Music Enchances Learning …

Scientists use the term neuroplasticity to describe the brain’s ability to adapt and change as a result of training and experience over the course of a person’s life. The studies covered in the Northwestern review offer a model of … Continue reading

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Neuroplastic fantastic « Mind Hacks

One of the difficulties with the term ‘ neuroplasticity ‘ is that it’s actually fairly vague. It is often applied to normal neuronal changes (during memory formation, for example) to the growth of new neurons (neurogenesis) to the changes … Continue reading

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Neuroplasticity is a dirty word « Mind Hacks

Neuroplasticity sounds very technical, but there is no accepted scientific definition for the term and, in its broad sense, it means nothing more than ‘something in the brain has changed’. Continue reading

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