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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

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  • 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

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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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