Plasticity

Plasticity may refer to:

Science

• Plasticity (physics), in engineering and physics, the propensity of a solid material to undergo permanent deformation under load
• Behavioral plasticity, change in an organism's behavior in response to exposure to stimuli
• Neuroplasticity, in neuroscience, how entire brain structures, and the brain itself, can change as a result of experience
  • Synaptic plasticity, the property of a neuron or synapse to change its internal parameters in response to its history
  • Metaplasticity, the plasticity of synapses
• Phenotypic plasticity, in biology, describes the ability of an organism to change its phenotype in response to changes in the environment

Art and entertainment

• Plastic arts, such as clay sculpture, in which material is formed or deformed into a new, permanent shape
• Plasticity, an album by Cabaret Voltaire
• Plasticity, a non-album single from Front Line Assembly released alongside Hard Wired
• "Plasticities", a song by Andrew Bird, from the album Armchair Apocrypha
• Plasticity (software) - 3D modeling program

Events

• Plasticity Forum is a conference on the future of plastic and how to reduce impacts on the environment.

See also

• Plastic (disambiguation)
• Neo-Plasticism