Abstract
The recent increase in technical and conceptual strength of both psychology and biology makes it possible to begin to examine problems at the boundary between the two disciplines. One particularly important set of problems at this boundary concerns the study of learning and memory. Learning refers to the acquisition of new knowledge about the environment and memory refers to the retention of that knowledge. Learning and memory are universal features of nervous systems. All animals possess the capability for elementary forms of learning and several forms of learning first described in mammals, such as habituation, sensitization, classical conditioning, and operant conditioning, have been shown to be formally similar throughout phylogeny. This observation has encouraged the use of higher invertebrates, which offer the advantage of particularly simple nervous systems in which various forms of learning can be studied effectively on the cellular level.
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Montarolo, P. et al. (1986). Interrelationships of Cellular Mechanisms for Different Forms of Learning and Memory. In: Montalcini, R.L., Calissano, P., Kandel, E.R., Maggi, A. (eds) Molecular Aspects of Neurobiology. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70690-5_1
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