Input specificity is a fundamental property of long-term potentiation (LTP), but it is not known if learning is mediated by synapse-specific plasticity. Kim and Cho (2017) now show that fear conditioning is mediated by synapse-specific LTP in the amygdala, allowing animals to discriminate stimuli that predict threat from those that do not.

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杏仁核中恐惧记忆的突触特定编码。

输入特异性是长期增强（LTP）的基本属性，但尚不清楚学习是否由突触特异性可塑性介导。Kim and Cho（2017）现在表明，恐惧调节是由杏仁核中突触特异的LTP介导的，从而使动物能够将预测威胁的刺激与没有威胁的刺激区分开。