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Cognitive and Brain Plasticity in Old Age

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“What seemingly was often overlooked is that the brain itself is a dependent variable, something that is co-shaped by experience and culture, something that does not operate within an environmental vacuum, but that at any moment is subject to environmental constraints and affordances.”

Paul B. Baltes, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, & Frank Rösler, 2006

(Italics added; Lifespan Development and the Brain, p. 4)

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Thurm, F., Li, SC. (2015). Cognitive and Brain Plasticity in Old Age. In: Pachana, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_146-1

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