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| Sea slug genetics reveal learning machinery |
| The sea slug Aplysia has been a popular model for learning and memory for almost 40 years now. It can perform simple learning tasks and its brain cells (neurons) are so large, they are very easy to experiment on. With th...[more] |
| Aplysia learning genes |
| Posted on Wednesday 03 January 2007 - 15:37:45 |
| Are things starting to really take off now? |
| The last two weeks have been fantastic! My latest experiments tell me that operant conditioning and classical conditioning actually can be dissociated at the genetic level. I have mutants that are defective in classical,...[more] |
| operant conditioning learning genes students Caipirinha |
| Posted on Monday 17 March 2008 - 19:02:35 |