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Classical conditioning has much to do with LTP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Richard F. Thompson
Affiliation:
Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 thompson@neuro.usc.edu www.usc.edu/dept/publications/catalogue/las/las-neurosci/

Abstract

Shors & Matzel somewhat lightly dismiss the evidence that a process like LTP may underlie the learning-induced increase in neuronal activity in the hippocampus in eyeblink conditioning. I provide some 12 lines of evidence supporting this hypothesis and the further hypothesis that this learning-induced LTP-like hippocampal plasticity can play a critical role in certain aspects of learned behavior.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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