IFIBYNE   05513
INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGIA, BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR Y NEUROCIENCIAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
Memory reconsolidation and extinction in invertebrates: evolutionarily-conserved characteristics of memory reprocessing and re-stabilization
Autor/es:
PEDREIRA, EUGENIA; ROMANO, ARTURO
Libro:
Memory Reconsolidation
Editorial:
Elsevier
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2011;
Resumen:
The finding of memory reconsolidation in invertebrates has given an important insight into the evolutionary conservation and the adaptive value of the mechanisms involved in memory reprocessing. Furthermore, due to the characteristics of some memory models, important aspects of reconsolidation were initially found in invertebrates and then confirmed in vertebrates. In the present chapter, we revise the findings obtained with the context-signal memory model in crabs. Such studies were done both at the behavioral level, describing the parametrical condition for memory labilization and reconsolidation, and at the mechanistic level, describing molecular features involved in memory reconsolidation and extinction. Then, we review comparative studies in rodents in which the role of the molecular mechanisms described in invertebrates was evaluated in another contextual memory, fear conditioning. Comparative studies in humans on the nature of the reminder for reconsolidation are described in another chapter of this book.