The barista on the bus: cellular and synaptic mechanisms for visual recognition memory.
Our ability to recognize that something is familiar, often referred to as visual recognition memory, has been correlated with a reduction in neural activity in the perirhinal cortex. In this issue of Neuron, Griffiths et al. now provide evidence that this form of memory requires AMPA receptor endocytosis and long-term depression of excitatory synapses in this brain area.
Barth
Alison L
AL
Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Wheeler
Mark E
ME
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology*