Okano H, Hirano T, Balaban E
Division of Neuroanatomy (D12), Department of Neuroscience, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Nov 7;97(23):12403-4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.210381897.
Memory is one of the most fundamental mental processes. Neuroscientists study this process by using extremely diverse strategies. Two different approaches aimed at understanding learning and memory were introduced in this symposium. The first focuses on the roles played by synaptic plasticity, especially in long-term depression in the cerebellum in motor learning, and its regulatory mechanism. The second approach uses an elegant chick-quail transplantation system on defined brain regions to study how neural populations interact in development to form behaviorally important neural circuits and to elucidate neurobiological correlates of perceptual and motor predispositions.
记忆是最基本的心理过程之一。神经科学家通过使用极其多样的策略来研究这一过程。本次研讨会介绍了两种旨在理解学习与记忆的不同方法。第一种方法聚焦于突触可塑性所起的作用,尤其是在小脑运动学习中的长期抑制及其调节机制。第二种方法利用一种精巧的鸡 - 鹌鹑移植系统,针对特定脑区来研究神经群体在发育过程中如何相互作用以形成对行为至关重要的神经回路,并阐明感知和运动倾向的神经生物学关联。