Significant work has documented neuroplasticity in development, demonstrating that developmental pathways are shaped by experience. Plasticity is often discussed in terms of the results of differences in input; differences in brain structures, processes, or responses reflect differences in experience. In this paper, I discuss how developmental plasticity also effectively changes input into the system. That is, structures and processes change in response to input, and those changed structures and processes influence future inputs. For example, plasticity may change the pattern of eye movements to a stimulus, thereby changing which part of the scene becomes the input. Thus, plasticity is not only seen in the structures and processes that result from differences in experience, but also is seen in the changes in the input as those structures and processes adapt. The systematic study of the nature of experience, and how differences in experience shape learning, can contribute to our understanding of neuroplasticity in general.

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可塑性可能会改变输入以及过程、结构和响应


大量的工作记录了发育过程中的神经可塑性，证明发育途径是由经验决定的。可塑性通常是根据输入差异的结果来讨论的。大脑结构、过程或反应的差异反映了经验的差异。在本文中，我讨论了发育可塑性如何有效地改变系统的输入。也就是说，结构和流程会根据输入而变化，而这些变化的结构和流程会影响未来的输入。例如，可塑性可能会改变眼睛运动对刺激的模式，从而改变场景的哪一部分成为输入。因此，可塑性不仅体现在因经验差异而产生的结构和过程中，而且还体现在这些结构和过程适应时输入的变化中。对经验本质以及经验差异如何塑造学习的系统研究可以有助于我们对神经可塑性的总体理解。