PSY290H5 Lecture 8: PSY290 - Lecture 8
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If learning is occurring must see a change in that connection. If 2 neurons are correlated in time + space, that correlation should see a solidification of that connection. In learning, if the stimulus reliably produces a response, the strength of the physiological response increases. In rapid succession, that axon is going to stimulate it"s neighboring dendrite. If that happens again + again, notice + can measure that by the last time, when learning has occurred, it"s the same pulse hat"s" being sent through synapse + when measure that response on a dendrite it actually changing. If the stimulus doesn"t reliably produce a response, the strength of the physiological response: not reliably stimulating the dendrite it connects to. See a decrease strike of the post-synaptic potential. Forgetting is just as important, but reflects an unreliable response: hebb was taking advantage of post-synaptic potential, graded potential, called this bc can vary in size in magnitude (larger or smaller)
