{
 "name": "neuroplasticity",
 "type": "concept",
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  "huberman-lab-2026-07-13-how-to-improve-your-memory-cognitive-function-at-any-age-dr-",
  "huberman-lab-2026-07-20-accelerate-learning-increase-cognitive-capacity-dr-tommy-woo"
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "There is no known neural correlate structure for the play piece yet, and it may be distributed rather than localized.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.6,
   "subjects": [
    "play",
    "neuroplasticity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "51:54",
   "quote": "We don't yet have the correlate structure for the play piece.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-29-movement-practice-to-strengthen-your-mind-body-connection-id",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Play is energy-conserving if not energy-building, unlike the costly adrenaline/catecholamine state usually needed to trigger plasticity.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.65,
   "subjects": [
    "play",
    "neuroplasticity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "47:20",
   "quote": "I do think that it's energy conserving, if not energy building.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-29-movement-practice-to-strengthen-your-mind-body-connection-id",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Play uses a different neurochemical cocktail than the pure adrenaline route to plasticity, one that includes some other components.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.6,
   "subjects": [
    "play",
    "neuroplasticity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "47:20",
   "quote": "Play is a different cocktail. It includes some of those, but it includes some other stuff too.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-29-movement-practice-to-strengthen-your-mind-body-connection-id",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ido Portal",
   "claim": "The change you are after (e.g., out of depression or pain) is immediately available and can be produced non-chemically and lastingly by working with the models.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "internal models",
    "neuroplasticity",
    "depression"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:24:38",
   "quote": "The change that you're after is immediately available.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-29-movement-practice-to-strengthen-your-mind-body-connection-id",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ido Portal",
   "claim": "You do not need high volume or high intensity to transform; a single moment of freshness can transform you irrevocably.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "neuroplasticity",
    "movement",
    "practice"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:27:00",
   "quote": "There is another important, more important maybe, freshness, a moment of freshness. It can transform you irrevocably.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-29-movement-practice-to-strengthen-your-mind-body-connection-id",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ido Portal",
   "claim": "What we pay attention to grows, so we do not necessarily need a thousand reps for a change to take hold.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "attention",
    "neuroplasticity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:27:00",
   "quote": "What we pay attention to grows.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-29-movement-practice-to-strengthen-your-mind-body-connection-id",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Neuroplasticity is triggered by the gap between desired and current performance; if you can already do a task, the brain has no reason to change.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "neuroplasticity",
    "learning"
   ],
   "timestamp": "10:43",
   "quote": "So it's the gap between desired performance and current performance that actually triggers the opportunity for plasticity.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-07-13-how-to-improve-your-memory-cognitive-function-at-any-age-dr-",
   "published_at": "2026-07-13"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Tommy Wood",
   "claim": "Refining a motor skill as it's learned relies substantially on removing or downregulating inappropriate synaptic connections, not just forming new ones.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "neuroplasticity",
    "learning"
   ],
   "timestamp": "9:36",
   "quote": "the removal of other connections that decrease accuracy, say, that don't allow you to do the exact motion that you were intending to do.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-07-20-accelerate-learning-increase-cognitive-capacity-dr-tommy-woo",
   "published_at": "2026-07-20"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Tommy Wood",
   "claim": "The adult brain does not generate meaningful numbers of new neurons outside a few regions like the hippocampus; that popular 'new neurons' idea is largely a myth, though existing connections can still be rewired.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "neuroplasticity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "7:55",
   "quote": "compared to the rest of the brain, you're not really making new cells.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-07-20-accelerate-learning-increase-cognitive-capacity-dr-tommy-woo",
   "published_at": "2026-07-20"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Tommy Wood",
   "claim": "Broad, complex skills create wider plasticity transfer than narrow digital brain-training tasks, because the breadth of the response is proportional to the breadth of the stimulus.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "learning",
    "neuroplasticity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "23:19",
   "quote": "the narrowness of the response or the breadth of the response is proportional to the narrowness or the breadth of the stimulus.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-07-20-accelerate-learning-increase-cognitive-capacity-dr-tommy-woo",
   "published_at": "2026-07-20"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Tommy Wood",
   "claim": "Adults avoid trying new skills largely because they hate being bad at things, which undermines the very novelty needed to drive plasticity as they age.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "learning",
    "neuroplasticity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "30:25",
   "quote": "adults hate being bad at things.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-07-20-accelerate-learning-increase-cognitive-capacity-dr-tommy-woo",
   "published_at": "2026-07-20"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Entering a genuinely new skill or social experience seems to produce a broad 'halo effect' on the rest of daily life, beyond the narrow skill itself.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.55,
   "subjects": [
    "learning",
    "neuroplasticity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "32:27",
   "quote": "it almost seems like there's this kind of halo around the rest of our life.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-07-20-accelerate-learning-increase-cognitive-capacity-dr-tommy-woo",
   "published_at": "2026-07-20"
  }
 ],
 "predictions": [],
 "facts": [
  {
   "statement": "In therapy-assisted psilocybin trials for major depression, the most consistent brain observation is increased connectivity between areas that were not communicating before.",
   "subjects": [
    "psilocybin",
    "depression",
    "neuroplasticity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:13:40",
   "quote": "The most consistent observation in the brain is a lot more connectivity between areas that weren't communicating prior to that",
   "source": "Andrew Huberman",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-29-movement-practice-to-strengthen-your-mind-body-connection-id",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "statement": "A prior paper co-authored by Wood argues that a key driver of age-related cognitive decline is that adults stop giving their brains novel, complex inputs.",
   "subjects": [
    "neuroplasticity",
    "cognitive decline"
   ],
   "timestamp": "30:25",
   "quote": "potentially one of the reasons why we lose cognitive function as we get older is because we stop giving our brain novel inputs or complex inputs that help maintain function, drive neuroplasticity.",
   "source": "Tommy Wood",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-07-20-accelerate-learning-increase-cognitive-capacity-dr-tommy-woo",
   "published_at": "2026-07-20"
  }
 ],
 "first_seen": "2026-06-29",
 "last_seen": "2026-07-20"
}