Long-term potentiation, cooperativity and Hebb's cell assemblies: a personal history.
The early history of the experimental work leading to the discovery that long-term potentiation (LTP) embodies Hebb's principle of association is described. In addition, the fallacy underlying the sometimes presumed distinction between 'cooperativity' and 'associativity' in the induction of LTP is pointed out.
McNaughton
Bruce L
BL
Room 384, Life Sciences North Building, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA. bruce@nsma.arizona.edu
D000818:Animals; D002170:Canada; D049673:History, 20th Century; D017774:Long-Term Potentiation / Q000502:physiology; D009482:Neurophysiology / Q000266:history*