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As in long-term memory, LTP is consolidated by reinforcers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Klaus G. Reymann
Klaus G. Reymann
Affiliation:
Federal Institute for Neurobiology, Department of Neurophysiology, D-39008 Magdeburg, Germanyreymann@ifn-magdeburg.de www.ifn-magdeburg.de
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Abstract

Recent evidence from our lab indicates that LTP shares an important property with memory consolidation: it is consolidated by natural reinforcement. Nevertheless, the hypothesis, that LTP-like mechanisms or other forms of enhanced synaptic efficacy are basic elements in learning is not unequivocally supported. Skepticism aside, LTP is an accessible experimental model that is optimally equipped for the investigation of the cellular and molecular machinery involved in synaptic weight changes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 627 - 628
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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