Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Plasticity has two meanings in Wikipedia. In physics and engineering, plasticity is the propensity of a material to undergo plastic deformation under load. Plasticity that is temperature dependent is known as thermoplasticity. In neurobiology, plasticity refers to a property of a neuron or synapse to change its internal parameters in response to its history. Neural plasticity is hypothesized to be the primary physiological basis for learning. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.