Octopus Conditioning: A Multi-Armed Approach to the LTP-Learning Question.
June 28th, 2008 | by admin |Octopus Conditioning: A Multi-Armed Approach to the LTP-Learning Question.
A recent study shows that avoidance conditioning in the cephalopod Octopus vulgaris is mediated by long-term potentiation (LTP), a form of synaptic plasticity thought to be important in vertebrate associative learning. Thus, LTP appears to be an evolutionarily conserved learning mechanism.
Glanzman DL.
Department of Physiological Science, UCLA College, and Department of Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.