Learning

Abstract

What is learning? A seemingly simple question, but the answer is both simple and complex. At its most basic, learning is a relatively permanent change in a neuron . Over the past half-century, scientists have uncovered most of the basic biological and chemical processes involved in learning at the neural level.

Understanding how neurons work together to generate thoughts and behavior remains one of the most difficult open problems in all of biology, largely because scientists generally cannot see whole neural circuits in action.

Meisenböck¹