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plasticity

plasticity Plasticity is the capacity of the nervous system to change its functional properties over time, giving behavior the flexibility to adapt to new tasks and environments.

Plasticity is the capacity of the nervous system to change its functional properties over time, giving behavior the flexibility to adapt to new tasks and environments. In learning, it refers to gradual shifts in neural activity or tuning that support adaptation while coexisting with enough stability to preserve learned behavior.