2012
Volume 12, Number 2, pp. 54–55
A physical hypothesis for learning
Lajos Keszthelyi†, ‡
† Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, P. O. B. 521, Hungary, H-6701
‡ Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics,Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, P.O.B. 49, Hungary, H-1525
In the last 40 years a large number of studies has been devoted to understand how the central nervous system records and recalls sensory experiences; in other words, how does memory function? Here we outline a physical process, as a hypothesis, based on a simple assumption, which may explain the activation of the synapses.
Keywords: electric impulses, Hebbian synapse, membrane rigidity, orientation, protein dipoles