Long-term Potentiation
Professor Graham Collingridge describes the process of long-term potentiation (LTP) - the process by which synapses increase their efficiency.
LTP is the process by which synapses increase their efficiency. The idea is that if something is important the synapses are used a lot, and they remember that by changing their properties. That is the way information that is important is stored in the brain.
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