That’s called synaptic pruning and, while it most happens as a human matures, there’s evidence indicating that it occurs during sleep in adults to help consolid

That’s called synaptic pruning and, while it most happens as a human matures, there’s evidence indicating that it occurs during sleep in adults to help consolidate the most important connections and remove the unimportant ones. It’s not exactly like dropout, but at a high level it kind of looks like it.