Ep2: Cells that Fire Together Wire Together - the Science, the History and the Principle
Welcome to Building Your Best Brain Podcast!
In this episode we:
Sylvie’s favorite saying in all of neuroscience research!
What is a neuron?
What are the building blocks of a circuit in the brain?
Excitatory vs. inhibitory neurotransmitters.
Dr. Donald Hebb “Hebbian Learning”
The famous rhythm by Dr. Carla Shatz
The break-through research that brought it to life
What is neuroplasticity?
Resources:
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References:
Hebb D. 1949. The organisation of behaviour. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
Shatz CJ. 1992. The developing brain. Sci. Am. 267, 60–67. ( 10.1038/scientificamerican0992-60)
Song S, Miller KD, Abbott LF (2000) Competitive Hebbian learning through spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity. Nature Neuroscience 9: 919-926.