Plasticity I:
Learning & memory

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Neural mechanisms
Byrne's criteria for
learning localization 		Kandel Figure 62-4.
Black-box analyses
of memory 		Figure 18-1.
"Categories" of
learning & memory 		Table 29.1-3
Historical methods
for research
Figure 1-1.
Levels of analysis
of memory 		Figure 18-2.
"Core" memory
structures? 		Kandel, Figs. 62-5,6,10,11
Hippocampal circuits,
associative learning & ECT 		Fig. 29.4
"Simpler"
systems analyses
Fig. 29.5
Classical conditioning of
Aplysia gill reflexes 		P Box A
Role of K+ channels
in learning 		Figure 18-3, 4.
Protein synthesis
& memory 		Figure 18-5, 6.
Drosophila as a
model experimental system
Kandel, Fig. 63-3,5;10,13
Short & long-term
cellular changes 		Figure 19.1
Short-term
potentiation 		FIGURE 15.
Long-term
potentiation (LTP) 		Fig. 29.2.
Hebb's hypotheses (later,
Hebb's rules or laws)
Kandel, Fig. 63-8,9
Hebbian rules:
Cooperativity, associativity,
specificity of synapses 		Kandel, Fig. 63-7
Hippocampal
trisynaptic circuitry 		Fig. 29.18
Postsynaptic
mechanisms 		Kandel, Fig. 63-11,12
Early & late
phase LTP
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