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MIT model explains how the brain can learn novel tasks while still remembering what it has already learned.

To learn new motor skills, the brain must be plastic: able to rapidly change the strengths of connections between neurons, forming new patterns that accomplish a particular task. However, if the brain were too plastic, previously learned skills would be lost too easily. Reed more... (Читать далее...)