PSY-230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Morris Water Navigation Task, Hebbian Theory, Aplysia
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Fill a big tub with water and put something in it that makes the water murky. After 34th trial, the rat found the platform. After the 71st trial, the rat went directly after 35 seconds to the trial. Lesioning the hippocampus of the rat, it will always be trial 1 / a. Patterns of activity in the brain leaving a physical. Could be because there is a new memory being path made. When we have a synapse that increases in effectiveness after repeatedly stimulating that connection. Might see that neuron a and b and the hebbian synapse between them. A released 15 nts in the synapse and b has 2 receptors grabbing the nts. An axon that has been stimulated successfully in the past will become more successful in the future. Two cells that fire together, wire together. Used to study memory because they have only a few. Scientists are usually looking at the withdrawal neurons response.
