Eric Kandel earned a Nobel Prize for his research showing that specific memories depend on
a. biochemical alterations in transmission at specific synapses.
b. the creation of localized neural circuits in the brain.
c. hormonal fluctuations.
d. long-term potentiation in specific synapses along a specific neural pathway.
A
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