Principles Of Exercise Dependent Learning

Question 1

Use it or lose it

Answer 1

Failure to drive specific functions can lead to functional degeneration

Question 2

Use it and improve it

Answer 2

Training that drives a specific brain function can enhance that function

Question 3

Specificity matters

Answer 3

Nature of experience dictates nature of the plasticity

Question 4

Repetition matters

Answer 4

Keep at the function to repeatedly push the stimulus down an axon to get change in synapses.

Question 5

Intensity matters

Answer 5

Plasticity requires a sufficient intensity

Question 6

Time

Answer 6

Different forms of plasticity occur at different times during training

Question 7

Salience

Answer 7

Training must be important to induce plasticity

Question 8

Age

Answer 8

Occurs more readily in younger brains

Question 9

Transference

Answer 9

Plasticity in response to one training experience can enhance acquisition of similar behaviours

Question 10

Interference

Answer 10

Plasticity in response to one train in experience can interfere with the ability to bring back behaviours

Question 11

What promotes neuroplastic change?

Answer 11

Practice, feedback, specificity, aerobic exercise, sleep and brain priming