Learning and memory: how sea slug behaviors become compulsive.
A recent study of how food-seeking behavior in the sea slug Aplysia becomes compulsive provides new insights into the neural mechanisms of operant conditioning.
Kemenes
György
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Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. G.Kemenes@sussex.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001048:Aplysia / Q000502:physiology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D003192:Compulsive Behavior; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology