Your brain gets bored. When it stops responding to new information, that's a sign something's wrong. Researchers measure this by flashing stimuli for half a second and watching which brain networks light up.
called plasticity, you know, or neuroplasticity. How well can you adapt to your environment? And so we have a measure that tells us, you know, you know, how well is your brain adjusting to new inputs? That's the whole thing about your brain is it's constantly evaluating what's coming in and typically gets bored of repeated stimuli. Once I repeat stimuli, we deliver stimuli on these tests for about half a second. And, you know, when you look in the brain, it's very fascinating to watch the network respond to it. And you get— I get all excited about it because it's really cool.
So, um, I understand neuroplasticity is just a way of telling us that the brain likes novelty, right? It wants to be challenged. And what you're saying is if the brain isn't reacting to those new stimuli, then it's not able to process that.
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