Octopus conditioning: a multi-armed approach to the LTP--learning question.
A recent study shows that avoidance conditioning in the cephalopod Octopus vulgaris is mediated by long-term potentiation (LTP), a form of synaptic plasticity thought to be important in vertebrate associative learning. Thus, LTP appears to be an evolutionarily conserved learning mechanism.
Glanzman
David L
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Department of Physiological Science, UCLA College, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. dglanzman@physci.ucla.edu <dglanzman@physci.ucla.edu>
D000818:Animals; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D017774:Long-Term Potentiation / Q000502:physiology*; D008568:Memory; D049831:Octopodiformes / Q000502:physiology*