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Newborn brain cells modulate learning and memory
Date:1/30/2008

rged platform hidden in a pool of milky water. This task draws on many cognitive abilities, including analytical skills, learning and memory, and the ability to form strategies.

The more challenging Zhang made the test, the more difficult the altered mice found it to navigate the maze and remember the location of the platform. The mice showed both learning and memory deficits, he says. Its not that they didnt learn, they were just slower at learning the task and didnt retain as much as their normal counterparts, observes Zhang.

Whatever these new neurons are doing it is not controlling whether or not these animals learn, explains Gage. But these new cells are regulating the efficiency and the strategy that they using to solve the problem.


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