Neural Mechanisms of Conditioning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Invertebrate Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Changes of Membrane Currents and Calcium-Dependent Phosphorylation during Associative Learning

      • Daniel L. Alkon

      Pages 3-18

   3. Cellular Mechanisms of Causal Detection in a Mollusk

      • Joseph Farley

      Pages 19-54

   4. Analysis of Associative and Nonassociative Neuronal Modifications in Aplysia Sensory Neurons

      • J. H. Byrne, K. A. Ocorr, J. P. Walsh, E. T. Walters

      Pages 55-73

   5. Mapping the Learning Engram in a “Model” System, the Mollusk Pleurobranchaea californica

      • W. Jackson Davis

      Pages 75-105

   6. Recent Progress in Some Invertebrate Learning Systems

      • Graham Hoyle

      Pages 107-123

3. Vertebrate Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Cellular Basis of Classical Conditioning Mediated by the Red Nucleus in the Cat

      • Nakaakira Tsukahara

      Pages 127-139

   3. Dendritic Spine Structure and Function

      • Dennis M. D. Landis

      Pages 141-149

   4. Rapid Conditioning of an Eye Blink Reflex in Cats

      • Charles D. Woody, Neil E. Berthier, Ellen H.-J. Kim

      Pages 151-165

   5. Neuronal Mechanisms Underlying Plastic Postural Changes in Decerebrate, Reflexively Standing Cats

      • Shigemi Mori, Takashi Sakamoto, Yoshihiro Ohta

      Pages 167-185

   6. Recovery of Motor Skill Following Deprivation of Direct Sensory Input to the Motor Cortex in the Monkey

      • Hiroshi Asanuma

      Pages 187-196

   7. Motoneuronal Control of Eye Retraction/Nictitating Membrane Extension in Rabbit

      • John F. Disterhoft, Craig Weiss

      Pages 197-208

   8. Two Model Systems

      • John W. Moore

      Pages 209-219

   9. How Can the Cerebellar Neuronal Network Mediate a Classically Conditioned Reflex?

      • Masao Ito

      Pages 221-222

   10. Mnemonic Interaction between and within Cerebral Hemispheres in Macaques

       • Robert W. Doty, Jeffrey D. Lewine, James L. Ringo

       Pages 223-231

   11. Passive Avoidance Training in the Chick

       • Steven P. R. Rose

       Pages 233-248

4. Membrane Physiology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249

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   2. Role of Calcium Ions in Learning

      • K. Krnjević

      Pages 251-259

This is the second volume to be based on a series of symposia being held periodically on the neurobiology of conditioning. The first, entitled Conditioning: Representation of Involved Neural Functions was based on a symposium held in Asilomar, Cali­ fornia, in October 1982 (Woody, 1982). The present volume is based on a sym­ posium, organized by D. Alkon and C. Woody, held at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in November 1983. This series of sym­ posia and their publication are more than justified by the extraordinary progress be­ ing made during recent years in all branches of neuroscience and its application to our understanding of some of the basic neuronal mechanisms of conditioning and learning. Invertebrate models of conditioning have been used by many in the attempt to obtain a more thoroughly controlled analysis at the single cellular and synaptic level of the mechanisms involved in elementary conditioning in a simple nervous system. Examples of this approach are presented in this volume and utilize insects (grasshopper), crustacea (crayfish), and particularly the relatively simple nervous systems of mollusks (Aplysia and Hermissenda). In such preparations it is possible to carry out precise electrophysiological and neurochemical studies of single iden­ tified cells and synapses involved in such simple processes as habituation and sensitization, as well as simple forms of "associative" conditioning, usually using simple aversive or withdrawal reflexes.

• Deprivation
• Nervous System
• biochemistry
• cortex
• neural mechanisms
• neurobiology
• neurons
• neuroscience
• physiology

• National Institute of Neurological Communicative Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA

  Daniel L. Alkon

• Mental Retardation Research Center, Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  Charles D. Woody

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