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Long-term potentiation: Does it deserve attention?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Shane M. O'Mara ,
Sean Commins ,
Colin Gemmell  and
John Gigg
Shane M. O'Mara
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irelandsmomara@mail.tcd.ie www.tcd.ie/psychology/people/shane-o-mara.html
Sean Commins
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irelandsmomara@mail.tcd.ie www.tcd.ie/psychology/people/shane-o-mara.html
Colin Gemmell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irelandsmomara@mail.tcd.ie www.tcd.ie/psychology/people/shane-o-mara.html
John Gigg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irelandsmomara@mail.tcd.ie www.tcd.ie/psychology/people/shane-o-mara.html
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Abstract

Shors & Matzel's target article is a thought-provoking attempt to reconceptualise long-term potentiation as an attentional or arousal mechanism rather than a memory storage mechanism. This is incompatible with the facts of the neurobiology of attention and of the behavioural neurophysiological properties of hippocampal neurons.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 625 - 626
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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