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Design an experiment with a group of taxi drivers in a new city to examine the role of neuroplasticity on learning. Assume you have the ability to image their brains to measure changes in the volume of gray matter.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So what accounts for the wide range of brain wiring observed in different people? Let's begin by answer choice B action potential. Remember that these action potentials are going to be signals caused by the deep polarization of neurons. So they're going to be what is transmitted between them. These are not going to be the cause of just the differences in the brains or in the wiring among people. So we're going to cancel it out. Then we have neurogenesis and this refers to the production of new nervous tissue. This is usually performed or it usually happens in babies while they're still in the womb. And it's not going to be the cause of why the brains of different people are wired differently. So we're going to cancel it out. Well the reason why different brains are wired differently is actually neuronal plasticity which refers to the reorganization and use the modification in the arrangement of neurons. And this all depends on a person's experiences and just live history. So it really is very specific from person to person. So this neuronal plasticity is going to be responsible for the wide range of brain wiring observed in different people since it depends on the experiences of these specific people because of this answer choice A is the correct answer to our question. I really hope this video helped you and I have to see you on the next one

Design an experiment with a group of taxi drivers in a new city to examine the role of neuroplasticity on learning. Assume you have the ability to image their brains to measure changes in the volume of gray matter.

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