Sentences with phrase «adaptive plasticity in»
Adaptive plasticity in stressful environments: acidity constrains inducible defences in Rana arvalis.
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Scanziani and his colleagues sought to understand the origins of this adaptive plasticity by studying the eye movements in mice before and after disabling their vestibular ocular reflex.
If anything the evidence indicates that the great cognitive achievement in human evolution was cortical plasticity, which allows for rapidly adaptive changes to the environment, both across evolutionary time and [across] individual lifetimes.
Instead, the variety of environments in which humans seem to thrive highlights the «extraordinary level of adaptive plasticity afforded by our capacities for learning and culture,» Laland and his co-authors noted in their paper.
A comparative analysis of the adaptive developmental plasticity hypothesis in six Mediterranean anuran species along a pond permanency gradient.
Results of individual studies have suggested that some children who enter into intensive autism - specialized intervention services at young ages may show larger gains in terms of cognitive and adaptive functioning and early educational attainment than children who do not receive such services.2, — , 6 This research led to a reconceptualization of ASDs as a group of disorders marked by plasticity and heterogeneity and for which there was hope for better outcomes for some children who receive appropriate intervention.