What is neural plasticity?

Plasticity Quiz

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Leigh Drew
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The brain's ability to change and adapt as a result of experience and new learning.
The brain's inability to form new connections.
The brain's tendency to remain static and unchanging.
The brain's capacity to lose connections over time.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does functional recovery refer to?
The brain's ability to form new memories.
The brain's ability to redistribute or transfer functions from damaged areas to other undamaged areas.
The brain's capacity to lose functions permanently.
The brain's tendency to remain static after trauma.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Eleanor Maguire et al. (2000) study?
The effects of sleep on brain plasticity.
The brains of London taxi drivers and the hippocampus.
The impact of diet on brain function.
The role of exercise in brain recovery.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the significance of the hippocampus in the study by Eleanor Maguire et al. (2000)?
It is associated with memory and navigation.
It is responsible for motor skills.
It controls emotional responses.
It regulates sleep patterns.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What happens in the brain during recovery after trauma?
The brain loses its ability to form new connections.
The brain is able to rewire and reorganize itself by forming new synaptic connections.
The brain remains static and unchanging.
The brain's functions are permanently lost.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is axonal sprouting?
The growth of new nerve endings which connect with other undamaged nerve cells.
The loss of nerve endings in the brain.
The brain's inability to form new connections.
The brain's tendency to remain static.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is denervation supersensitivity?
When axons that do a similar job become more sensitive.
When axons lose their sensitivity.
When the brain loses its ability to form new connections.
When the brain's functions are permanently lost.
8.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the role of recruitment of homologous areas in functional recovery?
To form new memories.
To perform specific tasks using similar areas on the opposite side of the brain.
To lose functions permanently.
To remain static after trauma.
9.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the significance of the study by Bogdan Draganski et al. (2006)?
It showed that learning-induced changes occurred in the posterior hippocampus and the parietal cortex.
It demonstrated the impact of diet on brain function.
It highlighted the role of exercise in brain recovery.
It focused on the effects of sleep on brain plasticity.
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