Plasticity (A03)

Question 1

Strengths

Answer 1

• Occurs throughout age despite it slowing down
  Bezzola demonstrated how 40 hours of golf training produced changes in the neural representations of movement in participants aged 40-60
• Seasonal brain changes
  There is evidence that the SCN shrinks during spring and expands throughout autumn

Question 2

Limitations

Answer 2

• The brain’s adaptability is not always helpful (eg; phantom limb)
  60-80% of amputees have known to develop it, which is a continued sensation in the missing limb as if it were still there, caused by cortical reorganisation in the somatosensory cortex