Neuroscience

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, Neuroscience (NEU) module. Learning is the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. Memory is the retention of learned information. We learn and remember lots of different things and it is important to appreciate that these various things might not be processed and stored by the same neural hardware. No single brain structure or cellular mechanism accounts for all learning. Moreover, the way in which information of...