The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And so I think that the studies that Knudsen did showing the incremental learning can create a huge degree of plasticity as an adult as well as when the contingency is very high, meaning we need to eat, or we need to make an income, or we need to do something that's vitally important for us, that plasticity can happen in these enormous leaps just like they can in adolescence and young adulthood.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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I think that the studies that nudson did showing that incremental learning can can create a huge degree of plasticity as an adult as well as when the contingency is very high meaning we need to eat or we need to make an income or we need to do something that's vitally important for us that plasticity can happen in these enormous leaps just like they can in adolescence and young adulthood