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| Describe what one scientist tried to do to localize memory only to show that memory is impossible to localize |
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| One scientist tried to localize where memory was stored by burning out different areas of rats’ brains. They could still remember how to do a maze after each procedure, until their entire brains were gone and they died. |
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• cells change over time to make communication more efficiently
• if a synapse isn’t used a lot, it will retract itself
• i.e. the more cell A communicates with cell B, the better cell A and B will be at communicating |
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• memory is associated with all sensory information
• hippocampus links ALL sensory input into a single memory (“cell assembly”) |
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• model for learning in cells
• Model for sensitization (most primitive type of learning)
• Stimulation of the cell the first time produces little response but the second stimulation produces a response more easily
• This is called cellular memory which lasts for days which is called long term potentiation |
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