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The right way, the wrong way, and the army way: A dendritic parable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Arnold B. Scheibel
Arnold B. Scheibel
Affiliation:
Departments of Neurobiology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Brain Research Institute, U.C.L.A. Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90024 [email protected]
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Abstract

We suggest that neither selectionism nor constructivism alone are responsible for learning-based changes in the brain. On the basis of quantitative structural studies of human brain tissue it has been possible to find evidence of both increase and decrease in tissue mass at synaptic and dendritic levels. It would appear that both processes are involved in the course of learning-dependent changes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 575
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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