MEMORY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME: CONSIDERATIONS OF A NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST


Submitted: 18 April 2014
Accepted: 18 April 2014
Published: 31 December 2013
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  • Fabio Benfenati 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.
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.

Benfenati, F. (2013). MEMORY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME: CONSIDERATIONS OF A NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST. Journal of the Siena Academy of Sciences, 5(1), 30–40. https://doi.org/10.4081/jsas.2013.3831

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