learning

Introduction

The generic term for the sustained change in behavior that occurs in response to experiences or practice.

Stages of learning:

• perception
• encoding
• storage or consolidation

All 3 stages are needed for new long-term memory.

Long-term potentiation (LTP) may form the basis of associative learning (memory).

Pathology

• mental exercise may counteracting tendency toward atrophy with age

Notes

• testing enhances learning through consolidation of retrieval processes linked with information storage

More general terms

• physiologic process

More specific terms

• machine learning

Additional terms

• amnesia
• cognition (intelligence)
• learning impairment
• long term potentiation (LTP)
• memory