Statistical traces of long-term memories stored in strengths and patterns of synaptic connections

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7657-7669

  Stepanyants, Armen ^a   Escobar, Gina ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; DENDRITIC SPINE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79957654900     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0255-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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