Experience

Question 1

After a young human being is born, what influences the neural connections?

Answer 1

Genetics – the predisposition to go to a certain target

Neural activity – how much and when neurons fire

Question 2

Hebbian synaptic plasticity

Answer 2

hypothesis that the coordinated electrical activity of a presynaptic terminal and a postsynaptic neuron strengthens the synaptic connection between them.

wikepdia notes: he general idea is an old one, that any two cells or systems of cells that are repeatedly active at the same time will tend to become ‘associated’ so that activity in one facilitates activity in the other.