NEUROSC M101C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Brenda Milner, Brainstem, Campal
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Scientists have wondered about learning and memory for decades. Go into the brain and look at how things change as things are stored in the brain. Kandel - simple nervous system with much fewer neurons. Animals are capable of simple forms of learning. Initial insights of network level mechanisms necessary for learning and memory. Work has also been done on drosophila, which are capable of good learning and memory. Drosophila has a preference for a particular chamber. Easy genetic manipulations allow for us to look for genes related to learning and memory. One of main mechanisms for memory formation. Change in strength of synaptic connections - change in volume, as a result of change in activity. Long-lasting and is made of multiple stages. Early on, neuroscientists divided memory based on temporal categories. Working memory - memory maintained for a short-while of time. E. g. memory just to get something done - remembering a phone number from a phone book.
