Work with the marine mollusc, or sea slug, Aplysia, pioneered by Eric Kandel (joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, 2000) and his colleagues, has provided us with some of most fundamental insights currently available into the nature of neural...

[Since the mid-1960s, the marine mollusk Aplysia has proved to be an extremely useful model system for gaining insights into the neural and molecular mechanisms of simple forms of memory. Indeed, the pioneering discoveries of Eric Kandel using this...

The genus Aplysia belongs to the family Aplysiidae and is a genus of sea hares, which are a type of large sea slug. The general description of these sea hares can be found under the entry about the superfamily Aplysioidea (Sea hares) These benthic...

Dissecting learning in Aplysia To understand how a machine works, an engineer might take it apart. One way for a neurobiologist to discover the mechanisms underlying various forms of learning is to trace how these are put together in the nervous system...

Cellular studies of implicit and explicit memory suggest that experience-dependent modulation of synaptic strength and structure is a fundamental mechanism by which these memories are encoded, processed, and stored within the brain. In this review, we focus on recent advances in our understanding of...