Plasticity and memory in cerebral cortex

TY - CHAP

T1 - Plasticity and memory in cerebral cortex

AU - Finnie, Peter S.B.

AU - Bear, Mark F.

AU - Cooke, Samuel Frazer

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Although long theorized to resist modification to reliably represent the external world, primary sensory cortices actually exhibit profound experience-dependent plasticity across the life span. Drawing evidence from primary visual cortex as a neocortical archetype, we will describe plasticity during complex forms of learning generally ascribed to higher brain regions. Accruing experience can alter the forms of sensory stimulation that trigger plasticity, indicative of a stabilization process that protects memory against loss and reconciles the discrepant views of cortical function.

AB - Although long theorized to resist modification to reliably represent the external world, primary sensory cortices actually exhibit profound experience-dependent plasticity across the life span. Drawing evidence from primary visual cortex as a neocortical archetype, we will describe plasticity during complex forms of learning generally ascribed to higher brain regions. Accruing experience can alter the forms of sensory stimulation that trigger plasticity, indicative of a stabilization process that protects memory against loss and reconciles the discrepant views of cortical function.

UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128093245210791?via%3Dihub

M3 - Chapter

SP - 233

EP - 262

BT - Learning and memory: a comprehensive reference

A2 - Eichenbaum, Howard

A2 - Byrne, John

PB - Elsevier

CY - Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Psychology (Academic Press)

ER -