Abstract
A single learning event initiates several memory processes with different time courses of retention. While short term memory involves covalent modification of pre-existing proteins, the finding that long-term memory requires the expression, during learing, of additional genes, makes it possible to analyse in molecular terms the induction and retention of long-term memory.
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Goelet, P., Castellucci, V., Schacher, S. et al. The long and the short of long–term memory—a molecular framework. Nature 322, 419–422 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/322419a0
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