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As the intensity of a high-frequency inducing stimulus increases, so does the _______ of LTP.

What is LTD?

Ionotropic receptors protrude outside and inside the cell.

What is glutamate?

The ionic composition of the intracellular and extracellular fluids become more alike when the neuron depolarizes.

Describe the in vitro LTP preparation.

An extracellular electrode used to measure the field potential detects a single depolarizing synapse.

AMPA receptors influx mainly Na+; NMDA receptors influx both Na+ and Ca2+.

The property of the brain that allows it to be modified by experience is _______.

Hermann Ebbinghaus invented _______as a tool to study “pure memory.”