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  1. 3. A stimulating one of these can boost the brain's learning capabilities.
  2. 8. This does not stop the brain from learning and changing.
  3. 9. This term refers to the brain's ability to adapt and change.
  4. 11. A skill that can be honed by working on puzzles.
  5. 13. This activity, in the form of therapy or puzzles, can help the brain recover or improve its functions.
  6. 15. These serve as a great workout for the brain.
  7. 17. People who engage in this activity are helping their brain to adapt and grow.
  8. 20. The type of learning theory that says neurons that fire together wire together.
  9. 21. This describes the brain's ability to adapt and change.
  10. 23. Planner, The brain acts like one of these when finding new routes after an injury.
  11. 24. This characteristic of the brain refers to its capacity to reorganize and adapt.
  12. 26. Routes, What the brain creates when learning something new or recovering from an injury.
  13. 27. The more these fire together, the stronger their connection.
  14. 29. What repeated learning and practice do to neural connections in the brain.
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  1. 1. A key trait of the brain, allowing it to learn and change throughout life.
  2. 2. The brain's ability to reroute functions after injury or trauma.
  3. 4. Routes, Repeated use makes these smoother and faster in the brain.
  4. 5. What your brain gets when you solve puzzles or learn new things.
  5. 6. Doing this helps strengthen connections in the brain.
  6. 7. The hippocampus plays a big role in this brain function.
  7. 10. Task, Engaging in a new one of these helps to grow new neurons.
  8. 12. The process of forming new neurons in the brain.
  9. 14. Skill, Learning one of these strengthens brain connections.
  10. 16. Routine, A metaphor for the brain's ability to learn and adapt.
  11. 17. Repeatedly doing something strengthens its route in the brain.
  12. 18. The brain learns and adapts from this.
  13. 19. A metaphor for the brain's amazing capabilities of learning, adapting, and recovering.
  14. 22. This organ has the superpower of flexibility and adaptability.
  15. 25. These are formed in the brain when we learn something new.
  16. 28. An aspect of cognitive function that can be improved by brain exercises.