'Behave' - Robert M Sapolsky
'Behave' - Robert M Sapolsky
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forgot this https://twetch.app/t/bec9430939b36b15772a9465d02a0ee666604871cf8b49ec36a683d98e5cb097
Long-term potentiation : Long-term depression
LTP increases prolonged neuronal excitability
LTD "sharpens a signal by erasing what's extraneous"
https://twetch.app/t/e64575e837f80588ac30e74fe92759d165ace7f99f9d2d8ade31fd7af3d7a8e5
memory and action potentials / excitation https://twetch.app/t/0cf7e8af092ed3509a6b93c0cd0bc54005c70bac213df4727379c8878b0b6b8a
Axonal Plasticity : one of two :: (reading braille) "neurons that normally send axons to the fingertip-processing part of the cortex instead have gone miles off course, growing projections to the visual cortex"
Axonal Plasticity : two of two :: "blind subjects were trained to associate letters with distinctive tones, to the point where they could hear a sequence of tones as letters and words ... they'd activate the part of the visual cortex used in reading..."
How do synapses identify each other? What is coordinating which synapses connect to which? Sensational experience? But if that, what filters this sensation? What decides which information is extraneous?
https://twetch.app/t/0743da08d5086060da90063d611e9a0ad2e2d86dd213b911085d474777ded501