Neuroplasticity and Vision

The video discusses brain plasticity, highlighting its role in face recognition, development from childhood to adulthood, and adaptation following brain damage. It explains how the brain updates its responses to repeated stimuli, how visual areas develop over a lifespan, and how brain damage can lead to reorganization of neural pathways.

What is one way the brain demonstrates short-term plasticity?

• By changing the size of neurons

• By decreasing response to repeated stimuli

• By increasing the number of neurons

• By altering the brain's structure permanently

How do high-level visual areas change from childhood to adulthood?

• They become less selective and smaller

• They remain the same throughout life

• They disappear as one ages

• They become more refined and selective

In children, how are face representations different compared to adults?

• Children have more categories of faces

• Children have less differentiated face categories

• Children cannot recognize faces

• Children have the same face categories as adults

What might happen to downstream brain areas if the occipital area is damaged?

• They increase in size

• They remain unaffected

• They become more active

• They reorganize due to lack of input

What is a potential consequence of brain damage in the occipital area?

• Improved memory function

• Reorganization of downstream areas

• Increased visual acuity

• Enhanced auditory processing