Neurobiology of Procedural Learning in Animals - Texas A&M University (TAMU) Scholar

2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Procedural learning and memory involves the acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval of individual representations that are behaviorally expressed in an inflexible manner. Stimulus-response habit learning represents a prominent form of procedural learning in the mammalian brain. Extensive evidence supports the hypothesis that this form of procedural learning is mediated by a neural system that contains the dorsal striatum as a primary component. Studies employing brain lesion techniques have dissociated the roles of the dorsal striatum and hippocampus in procedural and declarative memory, respectively. Pharmacological studies indicate a selective role for dorsal striatal dopamine, acetylcholine, glutamate, and cannabinoids in stimulus-response procedural learning.

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