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MEMORY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME: CONSIDERATIONS OF A NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST

Authors

  • Fabio Benfenati – articles in this journal Corresponding author Email Chair of Human Physiology, Department of experimental Medicine, University of Genova Medical School and Department of neuroscience and brain Technologies, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy.
Published
31 December 2013
Section
Articles
DOI
10.4081/jsas.2013.3831
Pages
30-40

Abstract

Learning and memory are fundamental higher brain functions that allow individuals to adapt to the environment, to build up their own history as unique creatures, to widen the personal cultural background and, ultimately, the population culture. The molecular and cellular mechanisms that contribute to short- and long-term memory are extremely conserved across evolution from mollusks to man and among various forms of memory and consist in short-to-long lived rearrangements in synaptic efficiency and in the structure of neuronal networks.

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