The Octopus Vertical Lobe Modulates Short-Term Learning Rate and Uses LTP to Acquire Long-Term Memory

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 337-342

  Shomrat, Tal ^a   Zarrella, Ilaria ^b   Fiorito, Graziano ^b   Hochner, Binyamin ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; OCTOPUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OCTOPODIFORMES;

CEPHALOPODA; MAMMALIA; OCTOPUS; OCTOPUS VULGARIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 40149087828     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.01.056     Document Type: Article

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