PSB 3002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Long-Term Potentiation, Dentate Gyrus, Dendritic Spine

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Psychobiology
• Course: PSB 3002
• Professor: Bethany Stennett

Document Summary

Chapter 13: learning and memory- the nature of learning. Neutral stimulus becomes a conditional stimulus, it now elicits the response by itself, which we refer to as the condition response. Instrumental conditioning: response followed by a reinforcing stimulus. Reinforcing stimulus increases the likelihood that the other stimuli that were present when the response was made will evoke the response: motor learning: primarily involves changes within neural circuits that control movement. In ca1 and dentate gyrus, nmda receptors play a role in ltp: control calcium channels and open them when the membrane is depolarized. Increase in calcium activates calcium-dependent enzymes that trigger the movement of. Information retention in short-term memory requires filtering out irrelevant information (left basal ganglia) and retaining relevant information (left pfc: learning and memory- instrumental conditioning. Instrumental conditioning strengthens connections between neural circuits that detect stimuli and neural circuits that produce responses: basal ganglia receive sensory information and information about plans for movement from the neocortex.