Memory in Neurobiology

Neurobiology studies memory through biological mechanisms: cells, circuits, synapses, molecular change, plasticity, and consolidation. It asks how experience physically changes living systems.

Core terms: neuroplasticity, neuron wiring, neural connectivity, neural circuit, synapse, dendrite, axon, myelin, synaptic plasticity, long-term potentiation, long-term depression, engram, consolidation, systems consolidation, reconsolidation, hippocampus, neocortex.

Terms that change meaning across fields: memory, trace, consolidation, plasticity, forgetting, adaptation.

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