How can early experiences modify the brain? Discuss impoverished and enriched environments in your answer.

Our genetic predispositions and our specific environments interact. Environments can trigger gene activity, and genetically influenced traits can evoke responses from others.

As a child's brain develops, neural connections grow more numerous and complex. Experiences then prompt a pruning process, in which unused connections weaken and heavily used ones strengthen. Early childhood is an important period for shaping the brain, but throughout our lives our brain modifies itself in response to our learning.

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Enriched environments are those that are deliberately made more complex, intellectually stimulating, and emotionally supportive. As for an impoverished environment it is the exact opposite.