It began with a rabbit: Unraveling the mystery of memory - 3 Quarks Daily

It began with a rabbit: Unraveling the mystery of memory

Half a century after the discovery of long-term potentiation, we’re still learning how the brain remembers

It began with a rabbit: Unraveling the mystery of memory - 3 Quarks Daily

Tim Vernimmen in Knowable Magazine: On a rainy day in July 2024, Tim Bliss and Terje Lømo are in the best of moods, chuckling and joking over brunch, occasionally pounding the table to make a point. They’re at Lømo’s house near Oslo, Norway, where they’ve met to write about the late neuroscientist Per Andersen, in whose lab they conducted groundbreaking experiments more than 50 years ago. The duo only ever wrote one research paper together, in 1…