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Nature Neuroscience 11, 1126 - 1127 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn1008-1126
Pavlov's moth: olfactory learning and spike timing–dependent plasticity
Julian P Meeks1 & Timothy E Holy1
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The authors are at the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
e-mail: holy@wustl.edu
Abstract
Spike-timing dependent plasticity is a favored synaptic mechanism for learning. However, a surprising new study by Ito and colleagues in the insect mushroom body suggests that it cannot account for a paradigmatic form of learning.
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