Who Founded Brain Plasticity?

The term "plasticity" was first applied to behavior in 1890 by William James in The Principles of Psychology. The first person to use the term neural plasticity appears to have been the Polish neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski.

Who came up with brain plasticity?

The first theoretical notions of neural plasticity were developed in the nineteenth century by William James, a pioneer of psychology. James wrote about this topic in his 1890 book The Principles of Psychology (James, 1890).

Who first discovered neuroplasticity?

The term “neuroplasticity” was first used by Polish neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski in 1948 to describe observed changes in neuronal structure (neurons are the cells that make up our brains), although it wasn't widely used until the 1960s.

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