If Two or More Interconnected Brain Cells Become More Active

question 111

Essay

If two or more interconnected brain cells become more active at the same time, the connections between them grow stronger through a process known as __________.

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Definitions:

Skewed

A description of the asymmetry in the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable, where the tail of the distribution is longer on either the right (positively skewed) or the left (negatively skewed) side.

Sample Mean

The average value of a set of data points collected from a sample of a population.

Median

The middle value of a data set when it is ordered from least to greatest, effectively splitting the data set into two equal parts.

Sample Variance

A measure of the variability or spread of a sample data set, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the sample mean.