Memory Consolidation
Professor Karim Nader explains that consolidation is a theory of memory that attributes memory formation to changes in synaptic strength and efficiency.
Cellular consolidation is a theory that says that the way neurons change and represent new information is by changes in strengths of the connections between different neurons. And, over time, the change in what we call synaptic strength or synaptic efficacy, is stabilized by the production of new proteins. So neurons have to produce new RNA and new proteins and these are thought to be building blocks by which neurons will stabilize the change in synaptic strength between two neurons.
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