Environmental enrichment and the sensory brain: the role of enrichment in remediating brain injury

The brain’s life-long capacity for experience-dependent plasticity allows adaptation to new environments or to changes in the environment, and to changes in internal brain states such as occurs in brain damage. Since the initial discovery by Hebb (1947) that environmental enrichment (EE) was able to...

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Main Authors: Dasuni Sathsara Alwis, Ramesh eRajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00156/full