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Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks

· Creativity Tools,Neuroscience

Very interesting piece that showed that while observing activity in the brain during learning, evidence of a lack of plasticity at the neural level. That discovery and the team’s related research may help to explain why some things are harder to learn than others.

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The hallmark of intelligence is the ability to learn. As decades of research have shown, our brains exhibit a high degree of “plasticity,” meaning that neurons can rewire their connections in response to new stimuli.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/brain-computer-interfaces-show-that-neural-networks-learn-by-recycling-20180327/