Non-synaptic neuronal mechanisms of learning and memory in gastropod molluscs.
Gastropod molluscs provide important model systems for investigating the behavioral and neural basis of associative and non-associative learning. Habituation, sensitization, classical and operant conditioning are studied in motor reflex and central pattern generator circuits. Although synaptic plasticity has long been recognized as playing a key role in molluscan learning circuits, non-synaptic changes resulting in alterations in the excitability of neurons are increasingly recognized as an essential component of the memory trace.
Benjamin
Paul R
PR
Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QG, UK. p.r.benjamin@sussex.ac.uk
Kemenes
György
G
Kemenes
Ildikó
I
D000818:Animals; D001048:Aplysia / Q000502:physiology; D049851:Gastropoda / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008195:Lymnaea / Q000502:physiology; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D008974:Mollusca / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012684:Sensory Thresholds / Q000502:physiology; D013045:Species Specificity; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology