Learning and memory

Memory is one of the most fundamental mental processes. Neuroscientists stu dy this process by using extremely diverse strategies. Two different approa ches aimed at understanding learning and memory were introduced in this sym posium. The first focuses on the roles played by synaptic plasticity, espec ially in long-term depression in the cerebellum in motor learning, and its regulatory mechanism. The second approach uses an elegant chick-quail trans plantation system on defined brain regions to study how neural populations interact in development to form behaviorally important neural circuits and to elucidate neurobiological correlates of perceptual and motor predisposit ions.