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During classical conditioning of the rabbit blink reflex, a large fraction of the hippocampal pyramidal neurons are recruited to respond to the conditioned stimulus (CS). The summed response of these neurons comes to match the whole time-amplitude profile of nictitating membrane movement, whereas some individual neurons respond only to part of this profile. A model is proposed that includes a learning rule to explain neuron recruitment and that uses a tapped delay line to account for the temporal learning properties of the system and the spectrum of individual unit responses. (26 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
