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Arousing the LTP and learning debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Stephen Maren
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109 [email protected] www-personal.umich.edu/~maren/

Abstract

Shors & Matzel provide compelling arguments against a role for hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) in mammalian learning and memory. As an alternative, they suggest that LTP is an arousal mechanism. I will argue that this view is not a satisfactory alternative to current conceptions of LTP function.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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