Operantly Conditioned Plasticity in Spinal Corda
- 1 August 1991
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 627 (1) , 338-348
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1991.tb25936.x
Abstract
Recent work has shown that the monosynaptic pathway of the SSR can be operantly conditioned, and that a significant part of the plasticity responsible for the behavioral change resides in the spinal cord. The most likely sites of this activity-driven plasticity are the synapse of the Ia afferent neuron on the motoneuron and/or the motoneuron itself. Because the SSR pathway is the simplest and most accessible stimulus-response pathway in the vertebrate CNS, it may provide a valuable experimental model for elucidating activity-driven CNS changes responsible for learning.Keywords
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