So how does learning work?

I've asked a lot of people how learning works and nearly every time the response is synaptic plasticity. It refers to the curious process by which synapses - connections between neurons - strengthen or weaken in response to co-occurring activity in neurons, and I probably hear about it more often than anything else in the neuroscience universe.

I've asked a lot of people how learning works and nearly every time the response is synaptic plasticity. It refers to the curious process by which synapses - connections between neurons - strengthen or weaken in response to co-occurring activity in neurons, and I probably hear about it more often than anything else in the neuroscience universe. Still, it's a bit odd, equivalent to asking a computer scientist how computer programs work and receiving an answer instead about how a transistor switches state. So how does learning actually work? Either the neuroscience community hasn't figured it ou

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