Long-term Potentiation

Professor Seth Grant explains that long-term potentiation is based on the principle that synapses become stronger with experience.

Long-term potentiation and long-term depression of synaptic transmission is a highly studied area of neurobiology. It is studied because it is thought, although not proven, to be a memory mechanism. Simply put, if synapses become stronger with experience, then it seems logical that that might be a way of storing memories.