> the neurons in a brain are used for the same task over and over again How does this square with the fact that people can get large portions of their brain sc

> the neurons in a brain are used for the same task over and over again How does this square with the fact that people can get large portions of their brain scooped out and still retain many of their previous abilities? This is a naive assumption, but if there were purely a 1 to 1 correspondence between a neuron and any given task, I’d assume you wouldn’t be able to recover from massive brain damage. But it seems like people can retrain the functional parts of their brain after damage to other parts to pick up the slack somehow.