The authors are in the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1201 Welch Road, Rm. P105, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. malenka@stanford.edu
Zhu and colleagues show that delivery of AMPA receptors to synapses early in development is activity dependent and that it shares some, but not all, features with LTP.