Eric Kandel
Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the physiological basis for memory storage in strengthened synapses of the brain's neurons.
He called the strengthening of synapses when they fire "long-term potentiation." It was confirmation of neuroscientist
Donald Hebb's idea that "neurons that fire together wire together" in what Hebb called "cell assemblies."
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