Abstract
The term “Plasticity” of Nervous System was introduced, in the early fifties, by Konorsky (1948) and it was related mainly to all the experience-dependent modifications which underlay learning processes in adult animals. Changes occurr either during the development and the differentiation of neural elements, or during aging, but changes occurr also in behavior and consequently in the networks of adult’s neural structure during learning and memory.
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Traina, G., Scuri, R., Cecchetti, D., Brunelli, M. (1991). New Aspects of Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Learning Processes. In: Bagnoli, P., Hodos, W. (eds) The Changing Visual System. NATO ASI Series, vol 222. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3390-0_12
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