Eleventh Bowditch Lecture
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A prime objective of neurophysiology is to learn how cells in the nervous system function during the everyday and moment-to-moment activities of an organism. This amounts to learning how the brain is constructed and how the parts function when the organism perceives, thinks or acts. An equally important though perhaps less obvious objective is to understand how the structure and function of the nervous system are affected by the previous history of the organism. The ability to undergo long term alteration as a result of experience is an essential property of nervous systems of all animals, and in higher forms the very act of learning presumably involves such changes. To understand the nervous system one must sooner or later address both phases of the problem the day-to-day functioning and the modification of function by experience.
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