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Richard F. Thompson ...

Richard F. Thompson (b. 1930) is an American neuroscientist and psychologist. In collaboration with Alden Spencer, Thompson has developed criteria for habituation ^[1] and showed that the main process here is variety of of synaptic depression that develops presynaptically^[2].

Research Topics[edit]

Brain Substrates of basic associative learning and memory.
Essential role of the cerebellum in classical conditioning of discrete responses.
Role of the hippocampus in basic processes of synaptic plasticity and memory.

References[edit]

^ Thompson, Richard F.; Spencer, William A. (1966). "Habituation: A model phenomenon for the study of neuronal substrates of behavior" (PDF). Psychological Review. 73 (1): 16–43. doi:10.1037/h0022681. PMID 5324565.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^ Raymond J. Corsini, Alan J. Auerbach (Eds). (1996). Concise encyclopedia of psychology. J. Wiley

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[1] Thompson, Richard F.; Spencer, William A. (1966). "Habituation: A model phenomenon for the study of neuronal substrates of behavior" (PDF). Psychological Review. 73 (1): 16–43. doi:10.1037/h0022681. PMID 5324565.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

[2] Raymond J. Corsini, Alan J. Auerbach (Eds). (1996). Concise encyclopedia of psychology. J. Wiley

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