Open AccessLearning and memory
Author(s) -
Hideyuki Okano,
Tomoo Hirano,
Evan Balaban
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.210381897
Subject(s) - neuroscience , psychology , mechanism (biology) , neuroplasticity , metaplasticity , perception , synaptic plasticity , motor learning , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , biology , philosophy , biochemistry , receptor , epistemology
Memory is one of the most fundamental mental processes. Neuroscientists study this process by using extremely diverse strategies. Two different approaches aimed at understanding learning and memory were introduced in this symposium. The first focuses on the roles played by synaptic plasticity, especially in long-term depression in the cerebellum in motor learning, and its regulatory mechanism. The second approach uses an elegant chick-quail transplantation system on defined brain regions to study how neural populations interact in development to form behaviorally important neural circuits and to elucidate neurobiological correlates of perceptual and motor predispositions.