Neuroplasticity: Cognitive development
Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to adapt or change in response to life experiences. The brain creates new synapses and builds new neural networks. Synapses and neural networks increase more than tenfold during the first year after birth. This makes sense, given the need for synaptic connections that underlie new abilities and memories in the first year of a child's life. Surprisingly, sometime during the...