August 28, 2003

Key brain link in associative learning directly observed

Eureka Alert:

New data potentially helpful to study of addiction and aging’s effects on the brain.

Scientists have directly demonstrated in rats that one area of the brain can support the creation of memories by changing nerve cell firing patterns in another part of the brain, aiding the animal's efforts to predict the outcome of an action based on past experience and act on that prediction.

Posted by Bob King at August 28, 2003 8:51 AM
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