Last summer, I began to make an online mini-bibliography on neocortical synaptic plasticity. It currently contains over 160 citations divided into over 35 cross-linked subtopic listings.
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Q: How can you very simply implement sequence storage, readout, and comparison using firing phase (rather than firing rate) as your neural code?
Q: Why does working memory hold 7 +- 2 items?
Q: Why is possibly transient phase-locking observed between the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, the cingulate cortex, and the prefrontal cortex?
Q: Why do the phases of place cells in the hippocampus (relative to the theta rhythm) precess as a rat moves further into the cell’s place field?
Read on for all this and more!
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Ray Kelleher, Arvind Govindarajan, Hae-Yoon Jung, Hyejin Kang, and Tonegawa have discovered that MAPK knockout mice can’t remember things for more than a few hours. MAPK appears to act on memory by up-regulating a large variety of proteins.
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