Aspects of the search for neural mechanisms of memory

Journal/Book: Annu Rev Psychol. 1996; 47: 4139 El Camino Way, PO Box 10139, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0139. Annual Reviews Inc. 1-32.

Abstract: The search for neural mechanisms of memory has been under way for more than a century. The pace quickened in the 1960s when investigators found that training or differential experience leads to significant changes in brain neurochemistry, anatomy, and electrophysiology. Many steps have now been identified in the neurochemical cascade that starts with neural stimulation and ends with encoding information in long-term memory. Applications of research in this field are being made to child development, successful aging, recovery from brain damage, and animal welfare. Extensions of current research and exciting new techniques promise novel insights into mechanisms of memory in the decades ahead.

Note: Review MR Rosenzweig, Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Psychol, 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

Keyword(s): brain plasticity; enriched experience; memory formation; neurochemistry of memory; synaptic plasticity; GILL-WITHDRAWAL REFLEX; FOOD-STORING BIRDS; PROTEIN-SYNTHESIS; HIPPOCAMPAL SPECIALIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL-DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLEXITY; DIFFERENTIAL EXPERIENCE; ABDOMINAL-GANGLION; CEREBRAL-CORTEX; RNA-CONTENT

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