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The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

1986; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 233; Issue: 4767 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.3738519

1095-9203

Richard F. Thompson,

Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications

Study of the neurobiology of learning and memory is in a most exciting phase. Behavioral studies in animals are characterizing the categories and properties of learning and memory; essential memory trace circuits in the brain are being defined and localized in mammalian models; work on human memory and the brain is identifying neuronal systems involved in memory; the neuronal, neurochemical, molecular, and biophysical substrates of memory are beginning to be understood in both invertebrate and vertebrate systems; and theoretical and mathematical analysis of basic associative learning and of neuronal networks is proceeding apace. Likely applications of this new understanding of the neural bases of learning and memory range from education to the treatment of learning disabilities to the design of new artificial intelligence systems.