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Definition
describing a material that can be shaped through bending or other force
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an ability to change such as the brain's ability to change how it processes information or an organism's ability to respond to varying environments
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an ability to change such as the brain's ability to change how it processes information or an organism's ability to respond to varying environments
- Maranda manages well without the left half of her brain because of a phenomenon we call plasticity.p. 150.6
- In plasticity, functions once governed by a set of cells in the brain are taken over by another set of cells.p. 150.7
- That's why plasticity only works in children.p. 151.2
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