Physiology 4700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Motor Learning, Implicit Learning, Habituation
22 Apr 2019
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The learnt content becomes a memory in our brain. Memory is stored in the cns and our cns is what enables us to learn. If we think about the animal kingdom, all animals can learn to some extence: the more they are evolved, the more elaborate learning paradigms they can do. Learning has been a huge advantage in evolution. What is the output of the brain: muscle commands, creating behavioiur that helps us survive. Memories are stored in the form of proteins or macromolecules within the cns. You have deposits of diff proteins that code for diff memories. We can form 900 000 different memories bc there are 900 000 proteins. Synaptic plasticity: the concept today is that learning and memory relies on synaptic plasticity. In our brain, we have 1 million km of nerve fibers: each neuron has an avg of 250 000 synapses, these synapses are plastic, this creates a complexity.
