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