Brendan Is a One-Year-Old Boy and Recently Suffered an Injury

question 13

Multiple Choice

Brendan is a one-year-old boy and recently suffered an injury to the part of the brain that controls language. On examining him, the neurologist says that other areas of the brain will assume functions of the damaged part and he will not lose the ability to speak or understand a language. The neurologist bases this diagnosis on Brendan's brain's ________.

• A) plasticity
• B) homogeneity
• C) elasticity
• D) heterogeneity

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