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Abstract
When rats learn a motor skill, synaptic potentials in the motor cortex are enhanced. A new study has revealed that this learning-induced enhancement limits further synaptic potentiation, but not synaptic depression. These findings support the view that activity-dependent synaptic plasticity is the brain's memory mechanism.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11231142 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(01)00015-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN: 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834