plasticity and functional recovery

Question 1

what is brain plasticity

Answer 1

brain ability to change throughout life.

Question 2

what did the research involve into brain plasticity

Answer 2

taxi drivers in London were studied as they were found to have more grey matter than to a matched control group.
As part of the training they must take a test call ‘the knowledge’ which is their ability to recall street names and possible routes.
And the learning experience of this alters the structure of the taxis drivers brain, so the longer the taxi had been in their jobs the more structural difference there was.