age and plasticity

• plasticity may be a lifelong ability
• typically plasticity reduces with age, however Bezzola et al 2012 demonstrated with 40 hours of gold training produced changes in neural movement in participants aged between 40-60
• fMRI's were used to observe the increased motor cortex activity in the golfers compared to a control group, suggesting more efficient neural representations after training
• this shows that neural plasticity can continue throughout the lifespan