Neural Planning

Neural Planning
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What is neural planning? It is daily routines such as feeding, bathing and playing strengthen particular synapses while those connections that are not reinforce by repetition actually wither away.

Many people assume that building synapse should be the name of the game. After all, nobody likes to think of “losing” anything! But neural planning is a neat trick of human survival that allows a baby to adapt to many possible difference conditions and settings.

The connections that are frequently used remain and are further strengthened though continued use. At a cellular level such as repeated due do pathways allows energy travelling between neurons to flow faster and more efficiently, thereby freeing energy to enable a person to gain expertise in those ideas, sounds and concepts she works with most often.

It helps to imagine pathways in the brain as a network of roads. Before neural pruning begins, when we need to get from location A to location B, there are many different routes in small roads we could take to get there. With experience we learn which route is the easiest and fastest and we go that way more often, no longer using those other a smaller, less efficient roads for A o B.

The road used most frequently is widened over time into a bigger road, and then eventually becomes a super-highway, making a trip from A to B quick and easy.
Neural Planning