Brain plasticity operates across development, lifelong modulation, and repair

Evidence

Brain plasticity operates, as we shall see, on three levels: (1) the modeling of neuronal connections (developmental plasticity in the embryo and the child); (2) the modification of neuronal connections (the plasticity of synaptic modulation throughout life); and (3) the capacity for repair (postlesional plasticity). ”Plasticity in the nervous system means an alteration in structure or function brought about by development, experience, or injury.” — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39

Categorization

• DEFINE: The operative three-level taxonomy of plasticity the reader needs to state the concept accurately.
• XREF: connects to: Human cognitive plasticity extends through enduringly plastic development shaped by culture — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 220