Many of my memories seem to persist covertly!
TIL there are biologists challenging the standard dogma that long-term memories are stored in synaptic strengths. Eg https://elifesciences.org/articles/03896 pic.twitter.com/HMc3LTMxgZ
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Structural plasticity does not account for all learning, th're analog long term changes in synapses which are common in hippocampus/cortex.
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Recent theory: binding energy states of receptors in an axon store a "state" which together compose long-term memories.
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"Stable synapses" can be manifested in many other ways. Eg. change of presynaptic release Pr or postsynaptic receptor numbers.
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