Long-Term Potentiation of Hippocampal Synaptic Transmission Affects Rate of Behavioral Learning
- 11 May 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 224 (4649) , 627-630
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6324350
Abstract
Electrical stimulation techniques were used to produce a long-lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus of naive rabbits. Animals were then classically conditioned. Long-term potentiation of the hippocampus before training increased the rate at which animals subsequently learned the conditioning task. This result has significance for potential cellular mechanisms of associative learning.This publication has 55 references indexed in Scilit:
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