Amy N. B. Johnston
Brain and Behaviour Research Group, Dept. Biology, Open University, MK7 6AA, UK.
Brain and Behaviour Research Group, Dept. Biology, Open University, MK7 6AA, UK.
The distinction, even division between psychology and neuroscience, between
behaviour and biochemistry, between ethology and molecular genetics has created
an almost dichotomous approach to studies attempting to understand processes of
learning and memory. The much lauded 'holistic' approach has, largely, been
dismissed as experimentally impracticable. However animal models such as
passive avoidance learning by chicks have enabled us to tie together a whole
range of 'ologies' and approaches within the same laboratory, to examine the
mechanisms associated with learning and memory from a number of different angles
and at a number of different levels of explanation. I will attempt to describe
how our laboratory and a variety of collaborators have put together a relatively
coherent model of learning and memory, albeit a still developing one, from a
behavioural to a molecular level.
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