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Hear a neuroscientist Christof Koch speaks about how a neuron identifies selective encoding and coding to specific memories
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learning, the alteration of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn. The array of learned behaviour includes discrimination learning (where a subject learns to respond to a limited range of sensory characteristics, such as a particular shade of coloration), habituation (the cessation of responses to repeated stimulation), concept formation (the process of sorting experiences according to related features), problem solving, perceptual...

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